{"id":15560,"date":"2017-06-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/06\/07\/prime-minister-theresa-may-visits-london-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T12:00:00","slug":"prime-minister-theresa-may-visits-london-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/06\/07\/prime-minister-theresa-may-visits-london-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Theresa May Visits London Hindu Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nchtuk.org\/index.php?option=com_acymailing&#038;ctrl=archive&#038;task=view&#038;mailid=150&#038;key=uiAg81eT&#038;subid=6315-7294e321ef71b428472226ad5554f321&#038;tmpl=component\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, June 5, 2017 (National Council of Hindu Temples UK): On Saturday evening Prime Minister Theresa May visited BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden, and over 3,500 Hindus gave the PM and her husband Philip a rapturous welcome. Arriving to a warm and dignified reception and welcome, the Prime Minister opened her address with &#8220;Jai Swaminarayan&#8221; the spiritual greeting of the Swaminarayan tradition and the congregation exploding into thunderous applause, opened their hearts to her.  <\/p>\n<p>Her speech which recognised the contribution of British Hindus and the importance of strengthening Indo British ties in a post Brexit world, received passionate applause. The PM recognised the &#8220;Karma Bhumi&#8221; principle behind the Hindu ethics of hard work and social service &#8220;to the land where one lives&#8221; and she made particular reference to the world renowned Hindu commitment to education. Prime Minister went on to reiterate that &#8220;British Hindus provide a shining example of how a community can integrate successfully and embrace British values whilst retaining their cultural heritage and identity. &#8220;British Indians provide inspiring role models across all walks of life, from business to medicine; finance to charities; and teaching to the creative industries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LONDON, ENGLAND, June 5, 2017 (National Council of Hindu Temples UK): On Saturday evening Prime Minister Theresa May visited,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}