{"id":6838,"date":"2020-05-28T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpol.qub.ac.uk\/?p=6838"},"modified":"2020-05-28T11:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T10:16:42","slug":"how-irish-clergy-and-faith-leaders-are-dealing-with-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/how-irish-clergy-and-faith-leaders-are-dealing-with-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"How Irish clergy and faith leaders are dealing with the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Across Ireland, church buildings now lie empty almost all the time due to Government restrictions on public gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;But&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishchurches.org\/cmsfiles\/resources\/People-Still-Need-Us-May-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new survey&nbsp;<\/a>of faith leaders in Ireland reveals there has been a surprising increase in online religious practice during the pandemic. People are praying more &#8211; and faith leaders and communities are showing remarkable resilience in the face of unprecedented challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I developed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishchurches.org\/covidsurvey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a>&nbsp;in partnership with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishchurches.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish Council of Churches\/Irish Inter-Church Meeting<\/a>. It was distributed to more than 2,000 clergy, ministers and faith leaders, north and south, via direct email and there were 439 responses between May 6th and 22nd May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To continue reading, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/brainstorm\/2020\/0528\/1143082-clergy-faith-leaders-religion-ireland-survey-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please click here.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/brainstorm\/2020\/0528\/1143082-clergy-faith-leaders-religion-ireland-survey-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RTE Brainstorm.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey of clergy, ministers and faith leaders in Ireland by Dr Gladys Ganiel has some surprising findings about online religious practice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2449,"featured_media":6840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[918,225,963,964],"class_list":["post-6838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-wellbeing","tag-covid-19","tag-religion","tag-religious-leaders","tag-survey"],"mb":[],"acf":{"authors":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":null,"value":null,"field":{"ID":9774,"key":"field_66d0cbf58f930","label":"Authors","name":"authors","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"relationship","value":null,"menu_order":1,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"post_type":["authors"],"post_status":["publish"],"taxonomy":"","filters":["search"],"return_format":"id","min":0,"max":10,"allow_in_bindings":0,"elements":["featured_image"],"bidirectional":0,"bidirectional_target":[],"_name":"authors","_valid":1}},"description":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":"","value":"","field":{"ID":9776,"key":"field_66d2183027749","label":"Description","name":"description","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"wysiwyg","value":null,"menu_order":3,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"default_value":"","allow_in_bindings":0,"tabs":"all","toolbar":"basic","media_upload":0,"delay":1,"_name":"description","_valid":1}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2020\/05\/Gladys-survey-COVID.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_featured_media_url","jetpack_sharing_enabled","amp_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}