{"id":68964,"date":"2017-08-16T16:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68964"},"modified":"2017-08-16T16:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T23:59:14","slug":"asgiri-sangha-sabawa-opposes-no-faith-motion-against-wijeyadasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/16\/asgiri-sangha-sabawa-opposes-no-faith-motion-against-wijeyadasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Asgiri Sangha Sabawa opposes no-faith motion against Wijeyadasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"row\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"row inner-text\">\n<p>The Asgiri Sangha Sabawa is opposed to any move by some politicians to bring a no-faith motion against a minister actively engaged in Buddhist activities, the Asgiriya Maha Lekakhadikari the Ven. Dr. Medagama Dhammananda Thera said in a special statement to the media.<\/p>\n<p>He said Minister Rajapakshe has already done a great service to the Buddha Sasana organising the World Buddhist Congress.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/media\/images\/image_1502895855-bef67d7ca6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The prelate said in consideration of his service to the Buddhism the honorary title of Dharma Neethi Visarada\u201d was conferred on him by the Asgiri Viharaya.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The views expressed by the minister and safeguarding the natural resources of the country has displeased some individuals and they are attempting to victimise him,&#8221; he said and added that the minister could not be blamed for the delay by the Attorney General&#8217;s Department to file action against corrupt politicians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some MPs are unhappy about his view<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Asgiri Sangha Sabawa is opposed to any move by some politicians to bring a no-faith motion against a minister actively engaged in Buddhist activities, the Asgiriya Maha Lekakhadikari the Ven. Dr. Medagama Dhammananda Thera said in a special statement to the media. He said Minister Rajapakshe has already done a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68964","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=68964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}