{"id":30838,"date":"2019-01-28T03:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30838"},"modified":"2019-01-28T03:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T03:22:07","slug":"cuba-opens-its-first-new-church-since-the-revolution-60-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30838","title":{"rendered":"Cuba opens its first new church since the revolution 60 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Sandino, Cuba (CNN)<\/cite>Parishioners wiped away tears and gave thanks to God as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/30\/living\/cuba-catholic-church\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">first Roman Catholic church built since the 1959 Cuban revolution<\/a> opened its doors on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;To see this finished is like coming out of the night into the day,&#8221; said Rev. Cirilo Castro, the Cuban priest who oversaw construction of the church. &#8220;We knew it would happen one day.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">That the communist-run government allowed a new church to be built, with two more on the way, represents another milestone in the state&#8217;s evolving relationship with organized religion.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandino, Cuba (CNN)Parishioners wiped away tears and gave thanks to God as the first Roman Catholic church built since the 1959 Cuban revolution opened its doors on Saturday.&#8221;To see this finished is like coming out of the night into the day,&#8221; said Rev. Cirilo Castro, the Cuban priest who oversaw construction of the church. &#8220;We&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}