{"id":8161,"date":"2021-03-27T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T08:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2021-04-01T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T07:00:58","slug":"churches-applaud-legal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/churches-applaud-legal-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches applaud legal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Church leaders in Scotland have expressed their relief at a judge\u2019s decision to overturn a Scottish Government ban on public worship.<br \/>\nAnd now the way has been cleared for them to do so, they are able to open their doors to their congregations and communities from this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This week, an action brought by 27 church leaders saw the Court of Session come down in favour of the faith community after it challenged far-reaching restrictions that were a clear breach of their freedom to practice religion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the decision of Court of Session judge, Lord Braid, had been announced, the Reverend Dr William Philip, minister of The Tron Church in Glasgow, said the group is \u2018very pleased\u2019 it had been recognised how \u2018essential\u2019 corporate worship is to Christians in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019We have recognised the serious decisions the Scottish Ministers had to take in response to the pandemic,\u2019 he said. \u201cHowever, its approach to banning and criminalising gathered church worship was clearly ...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church leaders in Scotland have expressed their relief at a judge\u2019s decision to overturn a Scottish Government ban on public worship. And now the way has been cleared for them to do so, they are able to open their doors to their congregations and communities from this weekend. This week, an action brought by 27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","category-homepage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8167,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8161\/revisions\/8167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}