{"id":50,"date":"2012-07-18T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hopeministriesindia.org\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2012-07-18T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:15:47","slug":"about-india","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"About India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hopeministriesindia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/india-political-map-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"india-political-map\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-51\" \/><br \/>\nThe harvest is plentiful but the Workers are few.<br \/>\nMathew 9:37<br \/>\nIndia Challenges<br \/>\n\u2022\tOver 1.2 billion people in area 1\/3 the size of the US<br \/>\n\u2022\t29 states and 6 Union Territories<br \/>\n\u2022\t4,635 people groups, 6,400 castes<br \/>\n\u2022\t40% illiterate &#8211; equal to the population of the US, Canada and Mexico!<br \/>\n\u2022\t18 main languages with over 1,650 dialects<br \/>\n\u2022\tOver 600 million live in deep poverty with 300 million living below the bread-line<br \/>\n\u2022\tPer capita income $800\/year (1.2% of the US)<br \/>\n\u2022\tReligion: Hindu 80%, Muslim 12.5%, Christian 2.4% (less than 1% in Northern India)<br \/>\n\u2022\tOver 600,000 villages &#8211; 2\/3 of these villages have no Christian resident workers! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The harvest is plentiful but the Workers are few. Mathew 9:37 India Challenges \u2022 Over 1.2 billion people in area 1\/3 the size of the US \u2022 29 states and 6 Union Territories \u2022 4,635 people groups, 6,400 castes \u2022 40% illiterate &#8211; equal to the population of the US, Canada and Mexico! \u2022 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hopeministriesindia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}