{"id":2793,"date":"2016-05-02T08:25:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2016\/05\/02\/earthquake-in-ecuador-and-jehovahs-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:25:56","slug":"earthquake-in-ecuador-and-jehovahs-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/earthquake-in-ecuador-and-jehovahs-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake in Ecuador and Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p1 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">A 7.8-magnitude earthquake thundered along Ecuador\u2019s Pacific Coast on April\u00a016, 2016. The quake and subsequent aftershocks caused extensive damage and killed more than 650. While the branch office of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Ecuador was not damaged during the quake, dozens of homes of the Witnesses were destroyed. The latest reports also confirm that one Witness died. The Witnesses have dispatched trucks with food and potable water to the affected area. Two\u00a0<a class=\"pubSym-ijw13fq\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/jehovahs-witnesses\/faq\/assist-with-disaster-relief\/\">disaster relief committees<\/a>\u00a0were immediately sent by the branch office to supervise the initial efforts, and they established two relief centers, one in the city of Pedernales and the other in Manta. Additionally, four representatives from the branch visited the affected zone to provide pastoral support.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p2 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px\">Media Contacts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p3 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px\">International: David\u00a0A. Semonian, Office of Public Information, tel. +1\u00a0718\u00a0560\u00a05000<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p4 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px\">Ecuador: Marco Brito, tel. +593\u00a098\u00a0488\u00a08580<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.3px\" class=\"p4 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/news\/releases\/by-region\/ecuador\/earthquake-disaster-20160428\/\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 7.8-magnitude earthquake thundered along Ecuador\u2019s Pacific Coast on April\u00a016, 2016. The quake and subsequent aftershocks caused extensive damage and killed more than 650. While the branch office of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Ecuador was not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}