{"id":306,"date":"2015-01-02T08:16:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T08:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=306"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:26:30","slug":"saudi-leader-of-organization-of-islamic-cooperation-to-visit-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/saudi-leader-of-organization-of-islamic-cooperation-to-visit-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi leader of Organization of Islamic Cooperation to visit Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia \u2014 The world\u2019s largest bloc of Islamic countries says its secretary general will make his first official visit to East Jerusalem on January 5 and visit one of Islam\u2019s holiest sites.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation comprises 57 Muslim-majority nations. Saudi-born Iyad Madani became secretary general in January last year.<\/p>\n<p>The OIC said Thursday that Madani will visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after meeting in Ramallah with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions have flared surrounding the holy site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount.<\/p>\n<p>Madani told The Associated Press in May that he encourages Muslims from all over the world to go to Al-Aqsa and \u201cconfirm that this mosque is a part of their faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/saudi-leader-of-bloc-of-islamic-nations-to-visit-jerusalem\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia \u2014 The world\u2019s largest bloc of Islamic countries says its secretary general will make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[26,74,356,102,101],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-middle-east","tag-oic","tag-saudi-arabia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iyad-Madani.jpg?fit=620%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-4W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}