{"id":8180,"date":"2009-08-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/28\/sri-lanka-frees-priests-from-camps\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T12:00:00","slug":"sri-lanka-frees-priests-from-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/08\/28\/sri-lanka-frees-priests-from-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Frees Priests From Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5i6MNtSU-m5yKo89zu7uSrZapCsTg\">www.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, August 27, 2009: Sri Lanka on Wednesday freed nearly 600 Hindu and Catholic priests who were held in internment camps with ethnic Tamils displaced by fighting between troops and separatist rebels, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The clergy were allowed to leave the camps in the northern district of Vavuniya, where 300,000 inmates are detained under tight security to be screened for remaining Tamil Tiger rebels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are taking measures to free the remaining members of the clergy at the earliest,&#8221; said P.S. Charles, the senior civil servant in the area.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 571 Hindu priests, six Catholic priests and two nuns were allowed out, she said, adding another 220 were still in the camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.google.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, August 27, 2009: Sri Lanka on Wednesday freed nearly 600 Hindu and Catholic priests who,&#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-8180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180","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=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}