{"id":60306,"date":"2015-08-31T00:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60306"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T06:56:54","slug":"abalos-says-inc-members-can-stay-in-mandaluyong-until-monday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/31\/abalos-says-inc-members-can-stay-in-mandaluyong-until-monday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Abalos says INC members can stay in Mandaluyong until Monday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IglesiaNiCristo?src=hash\">#IglesiaNiCristo<\/a> members shout De Lima pabebe!&quot; in front of Edsa shrine | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dzIQ990\">@dzIQ990<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/pL4kE5zXA1\">pic.twitter.com\/pL4kE5zXA1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Inquirer Group (@inquirerdotnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inquirerdotnet\/status\/637253483242979328\">August 28, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>MANILA \u2014 Citing &#8220;humanitarian reasons,&#8221; Mandaluyong City Mayor Benjamin Abalos Jr. allowed members of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC, Church of Christ) to stay in Mandaluyong until Monday morning, August 31.<\/p>\n<p>The protest rally along EDSA\u2014Metro Manila&#8217;s main thoroughfare\u2014was originally scheduled to end by Sunday midnight, as stated in the initially released permit. The protest started Friday, August 28, causing a monumental traffic jam.<\/p>\n<p>Standing on the make-shift INC stage at Shaw Boulevard, Abalos announced, &#8220;Mensahe ko po sa kapulisan: pinapahintulutan ko po sila for humanitarian reasons, magpatila sa Mandaluyong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abalos added that he will personally assist the protesters to Manila, where City Mayor Joseph Estrada granted them a permit to rally until Friday, September 4.<\/p>\n<p>As of recent reports, roughly 15,000 INC members are now along EDSA, with more faithfuls on their way to the city from provinces like Catanduanes and Bicol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#IglesiaNiCristo members shout De Lima pabebe!&quot; in front of Edsa shrine | @dzIQ990 pic.twitter.com\/pL4kE5zXA1 &mdash; Inquirer Group (@inquirerdotnet) August 28, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":60229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}