{"id":28153,"date":"2019-03-12T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=28153"},"modified":"2019-03-12T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:57:14","slug":"cccc-recommends-the-senate-affirm-advancing-religion-as-a-charitable-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/cccc\/2019\/03\/12\/cccc-recommends-the-senate-affirm-advancing-religion-as-a-charitable-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"CCCC recommends the Senate affirm Advancing Religion as a Charitable Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> CCCC submitted a written brief to the&nbsp;<em>Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector<\/em>&nbsp;in November detailing the well-researched benefits of advancing religion to the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the brief, CCCC asked the senate committee to affirm <em>Advancing Religion<\/em>&nbsp;as a charitable purpose with significant public benefit to Canadian society.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rev. John Pellowe, CEO of CCCC, has been invited to speak to the senate commiittee at 11:00 AM Monday, March 18 with a special emphasis on how even non-religious people benefit from religious charities. The presentation will be followed by a time for Q&amp;A with the senators.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CCCC asks for your prayers as we make the case for why religious organizations should have charitable status.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CCCC-Senate-Brief-Advancing-Religion-Cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28169\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CCCC-Senate-Brief-Advancing-Religion-1.pdf\">Download  CCCC Senate Brief Advancing Religion<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCCC submitted a written brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector in November detailing the well-researched benefits of advancing religion to the general public. In the brief, CCCC asked the senate committee to affirm Advancing Religion as a charitable purpose with significant public benefit to Canadian society.  Rev. John Pellowe,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/cccc\/2019\/03\/12\/cccc-recommends-the-senate-affirm-advancing-religion-as-a-charitable-purpose\/\" class=\"linkbutton\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-28153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28153"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}