{"id":5301,"date":"2011-08-17T10:01:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2011-08-16T17:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T21:37:58","slug":"british-bishop-laments-disinterest-in-syrian-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/british-bishop-laments-disinterest-in-syrian-slaughter","title":{"rendered":"British bishop laments disinterest in Syrian &#8220;slaughter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop of Bristol, England,\u00a0has criticized the British government\u2019s lack of interest in the \u201cwholesale slaughter\u201d taking place in Syria, according to .<\/p>\n<p>Scores have reportedly been left dead after the Syrian army sent in tanks to Hama on Sunday to crush the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t be the only person wondering why the west, having rapidly decided that intervention in Libya was a righteous and necessary cause, seems less interested in the wholesale slaughter taking place in Syria,\u201d said Bishop Mike Hill of the Church of England.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom&#8217;s Foreign Secretary William Hague has ruled out the possibility of military intervention because the Arab League has not called for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/bishop.questions.silence.on.syria.violence\/28358.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bishop of Bristol, England,\u00a0has criticized the British government\u2019s lack of interest in the \u201cwholesale slaughter\u201d taking place in Syria, according to . Scores have reportedly been left dead after the Syrian army sent in tanks to Hama on Sunday to crush the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. \u201cI can\u2019t be the only person wondering&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2201,1300],"class_list":["post-5301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>British bishop laments disinterest in Syrian &quot;slaughter&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/british-bishop-laments-disinterest-in-syrian-slaughter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"British bishop laments disinterest in Syrian &quot;slaughter&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The bishop of Bristol, England,\u00a0has criticized the British government\u2019s lack of interest in the \u201cwholesale slaughter\u201d taking place in Syria, according to . 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