{"id":6506,"date":"2015-05-04T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=6506"},"modified":"2015-05-04T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:11:34","slug":"nepalese-attending-covenant-churches-grieve-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2015\/05\/nepalese-attending-covenant-churches-grieve-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepalese Attending Covenant Churches Grieve Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6508\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/nepal-earthquake-response-logo-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"nepal-earthquake-response-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/nepal-earthquake-response-logo-300x96.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/nepal-earthquake-response-logo-1024x329.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/nepal-earthquake-response-logo.jpg 1524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>GRAND RAPIDS, MI (April 29, 2015) \u2014 Ram Aryal, Thornapple Covenant Church\u2019s minister to the Nepalese-speaking community, said today that many family members living in his native country have been forced from their homes by Saturday\u2019s 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy 80-year-old dad, stepmom, brothers, sisters-in-law, and my nephews and nieces are outside under tents,\u201d said Aryal, who has had limited email contact with family in Nepal. \u201cI do not know as of yet if anybody is hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/covenantcompanion.com\/2015\/04\/29\/nepalese-attending-covenant-churches-grieve-tragedy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a> from Covenant News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=6506&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND RAPIDS, MI (April 29, 2015) \u2014 Ram Aryal, Thornapple Covenant Church\u2019s minister to the Nepalese-speaking community, said today that many family members living in his native country have been forced from their homes by Saturday\u2019s 7.8 magnitude earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people. \u201cMy 80-year-old dad, stepmom, brothers, sisters-in-law, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[18176],"class_list":["post-6506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-relief","tag-nepal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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