{"id":6810,"date":"2008-05-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/10\/indian-christian-missionaries-banned-from-tirupati-area\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T12:00:00","slug":"indian-christian-missionaries-banned-from-tirupati-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/10\/indian-christian-missionaries-banned-from-tirupati-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Christian Missionaries Banned from Tirupati Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bosnewslife.com\/news\/3586-india-missionaries-banned-around-hindu-temple\">www.bosnewslife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">ANDRA PRADESH, INDIA, May 9, 2008: Native Christian missionaries are no longer allowed to preach in areas of seven hills around a famous Hindu temple in India&#8217;s state of Andhra Pradesh and face stiff prison sentences if they violate the rule, a Christian mission group said. In a statement monitored by BosNewsLife Tuesday, May 6, Gospel For Asia (GFA) said its missionaries have been banned from the area by local authorities. &#8220;The Andra Pradesh governor issued an ordinance that prohibits propagating any other religions near this temple and in 19 other places throughout the state,&#8221; the group explained.<\/p>\n<p>Although the state has not introduced anti-conversion law legislation yet, &#8220;many political groups are rallying to bring one about,&#8230;&#8221; the group said. &#8220;Already, if anyone violates the governor&#8217;s ordinance, they will face three years imprisonment and\/or a costly fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.bosnewslife.com ANDRA PRADESH, INDIA, May 9, 2008: Native Christian missionaries are no longer allowed to preach in areas of seven,&#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-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810","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=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}