{"id":46417,"date":"2020-07-23T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2020\/07\/23\/higher-committee-on-human-fraternity-speaks-out-on-hagia-sophia-transformation\/"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:14:00","slug":"higher-committee-on-human-fraternity-speaks-out-on-hagia-sophia-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2020\/07\/23\/higher-committee-on-human-fraternity-speaks-out-on-hagia-sophia-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Committee on Human Fraternity speaks out on Hagia Sophia transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Turkish government's rapid decisions this month to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity (HCHF) insists that places of worship should not be used \u201cin a way that could contribute to segregation and discrimination.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a letter, its general secretary Abdel Salem, recognized \u201cthe cultural and spiritual value of the Hagia Sophia for humanity all over the world.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leader of this interfaith committee started in 2019 by Pope Francis and the Iman of Al Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, also stressed the need to avoid any steps that could erode interreligious dialogue and cross-cultural communication.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, President Erdogan shared posts as well as this promotional video, revealing the latest developments of the Hagia Sophia transformation.<\/p>\n<p>One of his latest tweets states \u201cHagia Sophia ... Let the winds be blown away in the dome. You are always ours; we are yours...\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conversion of the Hagia Sophia is due to be completed ahead of Muslim Friday Prayers this week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 23, 2020. General Secretary Abdel Salem stresses need to avoid steps that could erode interfaith dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_Yn3FGwK0r4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bhumanfraternityeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bhumanfraternityint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}