{"id":7364,"date":"2017-05-26T00:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T23:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2017-06-07T10:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T09:52:02","slug":"responding-to-the-manchester-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/responding-to-the-manchester-terror-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Responding to the Manchester terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Trinity&#8217;s minister, Revd Dominic Grant, writes:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We at Trinity join with churches, faith groups, and community organisations across our Borough and throughout our nation in condemning Monday&#8217;s bomb attack. To the bereaved and injured, and to all who call Manchester their home, we offer our condolences and affirm our solidarity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Together with all people of goodwill, our diverse faith traditions hold in common a commitment to pursue peace with justice, and to build healthy communities shaped by generosity and mutual respect. These are values which those responsible for Monday&#8217;s atrocity sought to attack and undermine. But the response of Manchester&#8217;s citizens &#8211; seen in countless acts of selfless compassion and in dignified demonstrations of unity \u2013 stands as a powerful testimony: such attacks will not succeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7365\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1-768x354.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1-1024x472.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1-1800x830.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1-720x332.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/candles-1.jpg 1976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reflections from church leaders, including a prayer from the Moderator of the URC&#8217;s North Western Synod, have been collated by <a href=\"https:\/\/ctbi.org.uk\/churches-react-to-manchester-bombing\/\">Churches Together in Britain &amp; Ireland<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcb.org.uk\/manchester-attack-muslim-council-of-britain-statement\/\">Muslim Council of Britain<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcb.org.uk\/manchester-attack-muslim-council-of-britain-statement\/\">Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK<\/a> are among the many groups issuing statements condemning the terrorist attack.<\/li>\n<li>Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has likewise offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/uk-news\/chief-rabbi-composes-prayer-for-manchester-victims-1.439177\">a reflection and a prayer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity&#8217;s minister, Revd Dominic Grant, writes: We at Trinity join with churches, faith groups, and community organisations across our Borough and throughout our nation in condemning Monday&#8217;s bomb attack. To the bereaved and injured, and to all who call Manchester their home, we offer our condolences and affirm our solidarity. Together with all people of &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/responding-to-the-manchester-terror-attack\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Responding to the Manchester terror attack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7366,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}