{"id":8015,"date":"2009-07-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/12\/turkey-s-reality-tv-show-about-religious-conversion\/"},"modified":"2009-07-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:00:00","slug":"turkey-s-reality-tv-show-about-religious-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/12\/turkey-s-reality-tv-show-about-religious-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s Reality TV Show About Religious Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/turkeys-government-unhappy-with-planned.html\">religionclause.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISTANBUL, TURKEY, July 7, 2009: Istanbul-based television station Kanal T. Reuters last Friday reported that a planned show, &#8220;Penitents Compete,&#8221; will feature a rabbi, an imam, a priest and a Buddhist monk, each of whom will try, on camera, to convert ten atheists. <\/p>\n<p>Each convert will win a trip to his or her new religion&#8217;s holy site&#8211; Mecca, the Vatican, Jerusalem or Tibet. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Aktan, chairman of Turkey&#8217;s High Board of Religious Affairs, said: &#8220;Doing something like this for the sake of ratings is disrespectful to all religions. Religion should not be a subject for entertainment programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: religionclause.blogspot.com ISTANBUL, TURKEY, July 7, 2009: Istanbul-based television station Kanal T. Reuters last Friday reported that a planned show,,&#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-8015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015","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=8015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}