{"id":2852,"date":"2009-12-03T12:13:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T20:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2010-08-07T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T02:51:23","slug":"german-court-insists-on-sunday-shopping-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/religious-news\/german-court-insists-on-sunday-shopping-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"German Court Insists on Sunday Shopping Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 268px;\" title=\"Sunday Church Naxos Greece\" src=\"\/sundaychurch.gif\" alt=\"Sunday Church Naxos Greece\" width=\"250\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>&#8220;Sunday Church&#8221;, Naxos Greece<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Who is COGwriter?\" href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Germany&#8217;s highest court ruled that Sunday shopping restrictions must be observed and overturned a Berlin law:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!-- BODY,.aolmailheader     {font-size:10pt; color:black; font-family:Arial;} a.aolmailheader:link    {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:visited {color:magenta; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:active  {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} a.aolmailheader:hover   {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal;} --><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8216;Even Atheists Need to Switch Off on  Sundays&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Spiegel<\/strong> &#8211; Dec 2, 2009<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"spIntroTeaser\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Germany&#8217;s highest court has  ruled that Sunday should be kept as a day of rest and has overturned a Berlin  law easing restrictions on Sunday shopping. Most German newspapers on Wednesday  greet the ruling, some for reasons of religion and tradition, others out of a  concern for workers&#8217; rights.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">&#8212; Siobh\u00e1n Dowling<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,664754,00.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,664754,00.html\">http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,664754,00.html<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It has long been believed by many Sabbath-keepers (those who rest on Saturday) that more restrictive Sunday laws are expected in the future and that the Beast power will support Sunday laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Some articles of possibly related interest may include:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"\/europa.htm\">Europa, the Beast, and Revelation<\/a> Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about \u201cthe Beast\u201d? Is an emerging European power \u201cthe daughter of Babylon\u201d? What is ahead for Europe?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/sunday.htm\">Sunday and Christianity<\/a> Was Sunday observed by the apostolic and true post-apostolic Christians? How clearly endorsed Sunday?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/sabbath.htm\">The Sabbath in the Early Church and Abroad<\/a> Was the seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath observed by the apostolic and post-apostolic Church? <span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sunday Church&#8221;, Naxos Greece COGwriter Germany&#8217;s highest court ruled that Sunday shopping restrictions must be observed and overturned a Berlin law: &#8216;Even Atheists Need to Switch Off on Sundays&#8217; Spiegel &#8211; Dec 2, 2009 Germany&#8217;s highest court has ruled that Sunday should be kept as a day of rest and has overturned a Berlin law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}