{"id":105608,"date":"2024-10-30T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T11:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=105608"},"modified":"2024-10-30T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T12:45:26","slug":"world-council-of-churches-cop29-presents-a-unique-opportunity-to-advocate-for-the-unconditional-release-of-the-23-armenian-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/105608\/","title":{"rendered":"World Council of Churches: COP29 presents a unique opportunity to advocate for the unconditional release of the 23 Armenian hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/events\/prayer-service-for-peace-in-armenia-st-pierre-cathedral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The World Council of Churches<\/a> (WCC) is inviting all people of good will to join a prayer day for Armenia on Nov. 10, the day before the opening of the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan. The WCC will organize a local prayer service in St Pierre Cathedral, Geneva in collaboration with the Armenian community.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, the military aggression against the Republic of Artsakh in September-October 2020, followed by the ten-month-long total blockade of the Lachin corridor and the forced displacement of around 120,000 Armenians from their ancestral lands in September 2023, remains a critical concern.<\/p>\n<p>The organization said COP29 presents a unique opportunity to advocate for the unconditional release of the 23 Armenian hostages, as well as the Azerbaijani political prisoners and journalists detained in Azerbaijani jails.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Council of Churches (WCC) is inviting all people of good will to join a prayer day for Armenia on Nov. 10, the day before the opening of the COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan. The WCC will organize a local prayer service in St Pierre Cathedral, Geneva in collaboration with the Armenian community. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":105581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,95,47,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-azerbeijan","category-society","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}