{"id":1121,"date":"2019-04-23T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2020-04-07T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:53:21","slug":"cair-condemns-attacks-on-christian-worshippers-and-others-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/cair-condemns-attacks-on-christian-worshippers-and-others-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"CAIR Condemns Attacks on Christian Worshippers and Others in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">PRESS RELEASE<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">CAIR Condemns Attacks on Christian Worshippers and Others<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">in Sri Lanka<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div>(PITTSBURGH, PA, 4\/22\/2019)\u00a0&#8212; CAIR-Pittsburgh, a Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation&#8217;s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a series of attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that left more than 290 dead and more than 500 injured.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a statement, CAIR-Pittsburgh Program Director Zohra Lasania said: &#8220;The savage attacks on Christian worshippers celebrating Easter Sunday and others in Sri Lanka are an affront to all humanity. We mourn today the loss of our brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka and send our sympathies to the Christian community and all Sri Lankans. The past weekend is otherwise an auspicious one when Easter, Passover (Pesach) and Middle of Shaban overlap. Muslims respect the sanctity of all forms of prayer.\u00a0We renew our commitment to work against all forms of hate this weekend as we join thousands others and pray for Sri Lanka.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>CAIR is America\u2019s largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>La misi\u00f3n de CAIR es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensi\u00f3n del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\u2013 END \u2013<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>CONTACT: CAIR-Pittsburgh Program Director Zohra Lasania, 412-606-3601,zlasania@cair.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE CAIR Condemns Attacks on Christian Worshippers and Others in Sri Lanka (PITTSBURGH, PA, 4\/22\/2019)\u00a0&#8212; CAIR-Pittsburgh, a Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation&#8217;s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned a series of attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-community-news"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa.cair.com\/pitt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}