{"id":8118,"date":"2009-08-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/14\/india-regrets-us-body-s-censure\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:00:00","slug":"india-regrets-us-body-s-censure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/14\/india-regrets-us-body-s-censure\/","title":{"rendered":"India &#8220;Regrets&#8221; US Body&#8217;s Censure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/8200863.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, August 14, 2009: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) decision to put India on a list of states which failed to protect religious minorities is &#8220;regrettable&#8221;, India&#8217;s foreign ministry says. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom says India was added to the list because of a &#8220;disturbing increase&#8221; in religious violence.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries on the list include Afghanistan, Somalia and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the report, a spokesman for India&#8217;s foreign ministry, Vishnu Prakash, said: &#8220;India, a country of 1.1 billion people, is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The panel issues an annual report on religious freedom every May, but the chapter on India was delayed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk INDIA, August 14, 2009: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) decision to put India on a,&#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-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","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=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}