{"id":157197,"date":"2021-12-25T18:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=157197"},"modified":"2021-12-25T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T10:44:26","slug":"muted-christmas-celebrations-for-malaysians-amid-covid-19-massive-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=157197","title":{"rendered":"Muted Christmas Celebrations For Malaysians Amid COVID-19, Massive Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Christians in Malaysia celebrated Christmas Saturday on a sombre note in compliance with the prescribed standard operating procedures (SOP) to contain the COVID-19 outbreak and in light of the massive floods that struck several states in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Malaysian Family spirit, prayers were offered to those affected by the floods during mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Checks by Bernama found that colourfully-dressed devotees attended church service according to the capacity allowed by the SOP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike last year when Christmas was celebrated in a restricted manner due to the movement restrictions, families could get together on this auspicious day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on his Facebook update this morning conveyed a Christmas greeting to all Malaysians celebrating the festivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, this Christmas celebration will unite us and bestow on us a meaningful sense of love,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Torrential rains in Malaysia have caused flooding and landslides in several parts of the country with at least 46 people reported dead so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 25 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Christians in Malaysia celebrated Christmas Saturday on a sombre note in compliance with the prescribed standard operating procedures (SOP) to contain the COVID-19 outbreak and in light of the massive floods that struck several states in the country. In the Malaysian Family spirit, prayers were offered to those affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":157198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}