{"id":3243,"date":"2022-09-02T18:07:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2022-09-02T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T18:07:20","slug":"lafayette-denounces-racially-motivated-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/09\/02\/lafayette-denounces-racially-motivated-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lafayette denounces racially motivated violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Lafayette-Church-of-the-Brethren.jpg\" alt=\"Church with signs saying &quot;75 years for peace&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-3242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Lafayette-Church-of-the-Brethren.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Lafayette-Church-of-the-Brethren-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Lafayette-Church-of-the-Brethren-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/09\/Lafayette-Church-of-the-Brethren-560x315.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption><em>Lafayette Church of the Brethren<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lafayettecob.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lafayette Church of the Brethren<\/a> strongly denounces racially motivated violence such as the recent murders in Buffalo, New York. As Christians, we know God loves everyone and calls us to love our neighbors and our enemies. We confess that we have been silent when we should have been speaking out against racial violence. We will not be silent anymore.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>We pray for forgiveness for our silence and lack of action. We pray for a change of heart for our country, where racial hatred and violence is so prevalent.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the complete statement developed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lafayettecob.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lafayette (Ind.) congregation on their website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch worship services at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LafayetteCOB\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lafayette Church of the Brethren on Facebook<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Christians, we know God loves everyone and calls us to love our neighbors and our enemies.&#8221; The Lafayette (Ind.) congregation developed a statement calling for repentance and prayer following high-profile murders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[355,354,196,161,291,356,357],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indiana-south-central","tag-10-120","tag-lafayette-church-of-the-brethren","tag-peace","tag-racism","tag-south-central-indiana-district","tag-statement","tag-violence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}