{"id":7760,"date":"2009-05-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/28\/italy-requests-for-debaptisms-soar-in-milan\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T12:00:00","slug":"italy-requests-for-debaptisms-soar-in-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/28\/italy-requests-for-debaptisms-soar-in-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Requests for &#8220;Debaptisms&#8221; Soar in Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/worldmonitoring.co.cc\/\">worldmonitoring.co.cc<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MILAN, ITALY, May 20, 2009: [HPI note: this is a curious trend in Christian countries in Europe. It became a fad in England last year, where an online store selling de-baptism certificates was an unexpected success.]<\/p>\n<p>The northern Italian city of Milan is experiencing a boom in the number of people who want to renounce their baptism and leave the Catholic church. A report in the Italian daily Il Giornale said the diocese had received over 200 requests in the first five months of 2009, equalling the total number received in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a pastor, I worry and suffer every time I have to sign, as I did this morning, when I signed five or six of these requests,&#8221; said Luigi Manganini, the priest who presides over the discipline of the sacraments of the Milan diocese.<\/p>\n<p>Manganini said this upwards trend of so-called debaptisms is &#8220;worrying&#8221; because the majority of the cases are of people between the age of 40 and 50.<\/p>\n<p>The act of debaptism amounts to apostasy and the applicant is thus automatically excommunicated and prohibited from taking sacraments or having a funeral in a church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>worldmonitoring.co.cc MILAN, ITALY, May 20, 2009: [HPI note: this is a curious trend in Christian countries in Europe. It became,&#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-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","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=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}