{"id":427,"date":"2023-02-27T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/?p=427"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T01:31:49","slug":"statement-concerning-the-one-year-mark-of-the-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/blog\/2023\/02\/27\/statement-concerning-the-one-year-mark-of-the-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement concerning the one year mark of the invasion of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We of Nichiren Shu, continue to strongly condemn the Russian Federation&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s has been a year since the start of the war on February 24 last year, but there is still no end in sight, and precious lives are still taken one after another. We are profoundly worried about the minds and bodies of people at the mercy of the war, living without hope in the depths of fear and sadness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the poet Kenji Miyazawa once said, \u2018There is no personal happiness until all people in the world are happy,\u2019 each of us must not take this invasion as someone else&#8217;s business, but take interest and show it, and above all, continue to pray together loudly for lasting peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Namu Myoho Renge Kyo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reverend Eshin Tanaka<br>Chief Administrator of Nichiren Shu<br>February 24, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We of Nichiren Shu, continue to strongly condemn the Russian Federation&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. It&#8217;s has been a year since the start of the war on February 24 last year, but there is still no end in sight, and precious lives are still taken one after another. We are profoundly worried about the minds and bodies of people at the mercy of the war, living without hope in the depths of fear and sadness. As the poet Kenji Miyazawa once said, \u2018There is no personal happiness until all people in the world are happy,\u2019 each of us must not take this invasion as someone else&#8217;s business, but take interest and show it, and above all, continue to pray together loudly for lasting peace. Namu Myoho Renge Kyo Reverend Eshin TanakaChief Administrator of Nichiren ShuFebruary 24, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}