{"id":2006,"date":"2002-05-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/18\/2002-05-18-vhp-recruits-preachers-in-kerala\/"},"modified":"2002-05-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-18T12:00:00","slug":"2002-05-18-vhp-recruits-preachers-in-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/05\/18\/2002-05-18-vhp-recruits-preachers-in-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"VHP Recruits Preachers in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/nonfram\/arcscript\/htarchive.asp\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, May 9, 2002: The VHP is recruiting dharma pracharaks (preachers) in Kerala to offset the work of Christian missionaries in the area. Interested parties are requested to apply to the VHP&#8217;s Kochi office. &#8220;There are around 29,000 Christian missionaries in Kerala, while Hindu sadhus and sants add up to only around 400,&#8221; VHP organizing secretary Kummanam Rajasekharan said. &#8220;There is a cultural and spiritual vacuum we want to fill.&#8221;  The VHP plans to begin by recruiting 100 pracharaks, each of whom would be sponsored. After being trained for a month in the epics, Vedas and Upanishads, the missionaries will fan out to the state&#8217;s remote corners.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, May 9, 2002: The VHP is recruiting dharma pracharaks (preachers) in Kerala to offset the,&#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-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","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=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}