{"id":26089,"date":"2022-09-29T06:01:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26089"},"modified":"2022-09-29T06:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:01:29","slug":"algeria-orders-catholic-charity-shut-after-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/29\/algeria-orders-catholic-charity-shut-after-60-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria orders Catholic charity shut after 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Roman Catholic Church says the Algerian authorities have ordered the closure of its charity, Caritas, after 60 years of work in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Archbishop of Algiers, Jean-Paul Vesco, said Caritas was deemed an unauthorised organisation and that work such as aid to migrants would stop completely at the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Religious charities were due to be exempted from regulations requiring non-profit organisations to submit new documentation, but this never happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Algerian law guarantees freedom of religion, though places of worship and preachers must be licensed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vatican-based Caritas operates in 160 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">story by Mark Pivac<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Church says the Algerian authorities have ordered the closure of its charity, Caritas, after 60 years of work in the country. The Archbishop of Algiers, Jean-Paul Vesco, said Caritas was deemed an unauthorised organisation and that work such as aid to migrants would stop completely at the end of the month. Religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6850,8092,8094,8093,6609,7241,6537,12866,4028,8095,10342,7343,10379,10897,6833,8107,10415],"class_list":["post-26089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-aid","tag-algeria","tag-archbishop-of-algiers","tag-caritas","tag-catholic","tag-charity","tag-church","tag-documentation","tag-freedom","tag-jean-paul-vesco","tag-law","tag-migrants","tag-religion","tag-roman","tag-roman-catholic","tag-vatican","tag-work"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}