{"id":26158,"date":"2013-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/sri-lanka-482\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:36","slug":"sri-lanka-482","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/prayer\/sri-lanka-482\/","title":{"rendered":"\u65af\u91cc\u5170\u5361"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The beautiful island nation of Sri Lanka is struggling towards reconciliation and peace after three decades of civil war ended in 2009.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSW is hearing worrying reports of an increase in violent attacks against Muslims and Christians. Our partner organisation, the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) describes an &#8220;organised campaign of hatred against adherents of non-majority faiths.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week please:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Pray for an end to attacks on Muslim and Christian communities, and for justice and healing for victims of communal violence;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that church denominations would be unified at this significant time;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the government would not push through threatened restrictions on freedom of religion;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to protect activists working to promote inter-religious and inter-ethnic harmony in the nation;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for extremist groups such as the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS);<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that President Rajapaksa and his government would choose a path that upholds the rights of all communities in the country;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the northern provincial elections in September would contribute towards long-term peace and reconciliation.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beautiful island nation of Sri Lanka is struggling towards reconciliation and peace after three decades of civil war ended in 2009.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22851,"template":"","regions":[121,127],"class_list":["post-26158","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-south-asia","regions-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40828,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26158\/revisions\/40828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}