{"id":58654,"date":"2016-09-11T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=58654"},"modified":"2016-09-11T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T21:48:14","slug":"9th-clause-of-the-constitution-should-remain-unchanged-cardinal-ranjith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/09\/11\/9th-clause-of-the-constitution-should-remain-unchanged-cardinal-ranjith\/","title":{"rendered":"9th clause of the Constitution should remain unchanged &#8211; Cardinal Ranjith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"bookmarkIcon\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"fb-like fb_iframe_widget\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adaderana\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\">The pledge that has been given by the Government to protect the foremost place of Buddhism must be credited, Bishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith says.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>He expressed this view while participating at a religious ceremony held at the Holy Cross Church in Gampaha.<\/p>\n<p>We thankful for the President and the Prime Minister as they have vowed to give the right status and respect deserved for Buddhism,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Ranjith also went on to say that there was a move to add a new term to the proposed Constitution in a bid to promote atheism in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>This was also a reason why I stressed that the right status and respect deserved for Buddhism should remain intact in the Constitution. The 9th clause of the Constitution should remain unchanged,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news.php?mode=beauti&amp;nid=36895#sthash.2EyJvyQ8.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaderana The pledge that has been given by the Government to protect the foremost place of Buddhism must be credited, Bishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith says. He expressed this view while participating at a religious ceremony held at the Holy Cross Church in Gampaha. We thankful for the President and the Prime Minister as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}