{"id":50669,"date":"2025-08-07T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50669\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:07:13","slug":"lancashire-vicars-vs-imams-cricket-contest-fosters-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50669\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire vicars vs imams cricket contest &#8216;fosters unity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vicars and imams have taken inter-faith dialogue into the sporting arena with their own mini cricket series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire vicars took on the county&#8217;s imams in a close-fought contest at Padiham Cricket Club last week, with the latter winning a nail-biting victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bishop of Burnley the Rt Rev Dr Joe Kennedy said the match was &#8220;a testament to the strength of our shared values&#8221; and celebrated &#8220;diversity against a background of interfaith friendship and mutual respect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A return match took place on Wednesday at Eccleston Cricket Club, Chorley, in which the vicars won in a dramatic fashion by one run with the final ball of the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vicars and imams have taken inter-faith dialogue into the sporting arena with their own mini cricket series. Lancashire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-50669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}