{"id":32674,"date":"2012-05-14T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/287-non-catholic-priests-can-now-marry-couples\/"},"modified":"2012-05-14T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T01:43:56","slug":"287-non-catholic-priests-can-now-marry-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/05\/14\/287-non-catholic-priests-can-now-marry-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"287 non-Catholic priests can now marry couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has trained 287 pastors representing non-Catholic religious denominations to celebrate weddings. In the past, only Catholic Church priests could officiate weddings and followers of other Christian religions had to go through a civil marriage process with a Justice of Peace. As reported in Diario Libre, the JCE is working on the application of Law 198-11 that regulates weddings in the DR that is in effect as of January 2012. The newly authorized pastors are from churches including the Iglesia Asamblea de Dios, 96; Asamblea de Iglesia Pentecostal, 18; Concilio Cristiano 15; Iglesia Apostolica Misionera 14; Iglesia Adventista del Septimo Dia, 14; Concilio Menonita, 13; Iglesia Metodista Libre, 12; Iglesia de Dios de la Profecia and Asamblea Cristiana 10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has trained 287 pastors representing non-Catholic religious denominations to celebrate weddings. In the past, only Catholic Church priests could officiate weddings and followers of other Christian religions had to go through a civil marriage process with a Justice of Peace. As reported in Diario Libre, the JCE is working on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/05\/14\/287-non-catholic-priests-can-now-marry-couples\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}