{"id":8878,"date":"2019-09-11T03:04:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/10\/justin-welby-apologises-in-name-of-christ-british-massacre-amritsar"},"modified":"2019-09-11T03:04:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T18:04:23","slug":"justin-welby-prostrates-himself-in-apology-for-british-massacre-at-amritsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8878","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby prostrates himself in apology for British massacre at Amritsar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop says sorry \u2018in the name of Christ\u2019 over killing of 379 unarmed protesters in 1919<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised \u201cin the name of Christ\u201d for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/13\/uk-deeply-regrets-amritsar-massacre-but-no-official-apology-india\">1919 massacre at Amritsar<\/a> in India, when hundreds of people were shot dead by British forces.<\/p>\n<p>Prostrating himself at the memorial to the Jallianwala Bagh killings, Justin Welby said: \u201cThe souls of those who were killed or wounded, of the bereaved, cry out to us from these stones and warn us about power and the misuse of power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/10\/justin-welby-apologises-in-name-of-christ-british-massacre-amritsar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop says sorry \u2018in the name of Christ\u2019 over killing of 379 unarmed protesters in 1919The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised \u201cin the name of Christ\u201d for the 1919 massacre at Amritsar in India, when hundreds of people were shot dead by Britis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[751,370,749,62,750,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglicanism","category-christianity","category-colonialism","category-india","category-justin-welby","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8879,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}