{"id":1048,"date":"2006-12-11T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T06:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2006-12-11T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T06:19:00","slug":"mizoram-synod-of-the-presbyterian-church-of-india-to-preach-against-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Mizoram Synod of the Presbyterian Church of India to preach against birth control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mizoramsynod.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mizoram Synod <\/a>of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianchristianity.org\/presbyterian.html\" target=\"_blank\">Presbyterian Church of India<\/a>, which concluded today in the city of Aizawl, the Synod Assembly approved a measure to preach against the government birth control policies.&nbsp; The concern is that at the present rates of population increase the mizos ethnic group is in danger of becoming outnumbered and that birth rate should be increased.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newslink.in\/2006\/12\/11\/presbyterian-church-against-birth-control\" target=\"_blank\">Newslink English Daily reports<\/a> on the meeting which began on December 8.&nbsp; Among the other interesting resolutions was one which said that a pastor&#8217;s wife may not hold a government job since that would not give her enought time to support her husband.&nbsp; The Synod web site does have <a href=\"http:\/\/mizoramsynod.org\/index2.php?news&amp;read_news&amp;news_id=117\" target=\"_blank\">non-English agendas and summaries available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the meeting of the Mizoram Synod of the Presbyterian Church of India, which concluded today in the city of Aizawl, the Synod Assembly approved a measure to preach against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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