{"id":17393,"date":"2018-09-12T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/sri-lanka-to-ban-hindu-animal-sacrifice\/22"},"modified":"2018-09-12T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T17:27:22","slug":"sri-lanka-to-ban-hindu-animal-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=17393","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to ban Hindu animal sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tamil Hindu women light small lamps while offering prayers at a temple in Matale, Sri Lanka.\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sri-lanka-to-ban-hindu-animal-sacrifice-5b994c7a39a6f.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"639\"\/> Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Some Hindus sacrifice animals as an act of religious devotion &#8211; though the majority do not <\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s government has agreed to ban the ritual sacrifice of animals and birds at Hindu temples on the island.<\/p>\n<p>A government spokesman told the BBC the move was proposed by the Hindu Religious Affairs ministry, and said most moderate Hindu groups support it.<\/p>\n<p>Some Hindus sacrifice goats, buffalo calves and chickens at temples as an offering to their deities.<\/p>\n<p>But the practice has attracted years of protests in Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka, where critics call it inhumane.<\/p>\n<p>Animals sacrificed at Hindu and Muslim religious festivals are often left to bleed to death, which angers animal rights activists and some Buddhist groups.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sri-lanka-to-ban-hindu-animal-sacrifice-5b994c7a79889.jpg\"> Image copyright Alamy Image caption Hindus make up around 12% of Sri Lanka&#8217;s population <\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka has experienced deadly religious violence in recent years, including anti-Muslim riots that killed three people in March. Nearly 450 Muslim-owned homes and shops were damaged. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Some Hindus sacrifice animals as an act of religious devotion &#8211; though the majority do not Sri Lanka&#8217;s government has agreed to ban the ritual sacrifice of animals and birds at Hindu temples on the island. A government spokesman told the BBC the move was proposed by the Hindu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8010,8011,8012,8013,8014],"class_list":["post-17393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-animal-sacrifice","tag-catholic-church-news","tag-chilaw","tag-hindu","tag-sri-lanka-to-ban-animal-sacrifice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}