{"id":986,"date":"2007-12-30T22:00:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/30\/catholic-magazine-herald-gets-approval\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T14:00:16","slug":"catholic-magazine-herald-gets-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/30\/catholic-magazine-herald-gets-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic magazine Herald gets approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smack in the face of <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/12\/21\/deputy-minister-johari-on-use-of-allah-word\/\">Johari<\/a> ?<\/p>\n<p> Herald gets good news<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/12\/30\/nation\/20071230173605&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By ELIZABETH LOOI<\/p>\n<p> PETALING JAYA: The publisher of <i>Herald &#8211; The Catholic Weekly<\/i> newspaper, which reports on the Catholic community in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil and Chinese, has had its permit renewed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> The editor, Reverend Father Lawrence Andrew, said a representative from the Internal Security Ministry delivered the letter of approval, dated Dec 28, by hand at 10am Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> &quot;We thank (Minister in the Prime Minister&#39;s Department) Tan Sri Bernard Dompok for his assistance, as well as the various news agencies and other media groups for supporting us with their wide coverage,&quot; Father Lawrence said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe paper has a circulation of 12,000 among the Catholic community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> When contacted, Dompok said he had brought the matter to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi a few days before Christmas and Abdullah had promised to look into it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;I think the permit is good news and the Government has given the Christian community a wonderful Christmas present.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;The community will certainly be happy to know that the Government is looking into their welfare,&quot; said Dompok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smack in the face of Johari ? Herald gets good news source By ELIZABETH LOOI PETALING JAYA: The publisher of Herald &#8211; The Catholic Weekly newspaper, which reports on the Catholic community in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil and Chinese, has had its permit renewed.&nbsp; The editor, Reverend Father Lawrence Andrew, said a representative from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}