{"id":272653,"date":"2020-05-05T15:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=272653"},"modified":"2020-05-05T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:03:18","slug":"saudi-arabia-had-542-online-marriages-since-lockdown-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-arabia-had-542-online-marriages-since-lockdown-began\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia had 542 online marriages since lockdown began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 In Saudi Arabia, 542 marriages happened online ever since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1669656\/saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arab News reported<\/a>.\u00a0The marriage contracts have been filed since March 16, when this service ceased to be available onsite.<\/p>\n<p>The contracts are filed under Najiz, the services portal of the Saudi Ministry of Justice. The website provides services to Saudi citizens including checking \u201cmedical examinations online, without the need to physically visit a hospital and to record a marriage electronically in the Ministerial Agency of Civil Affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <em>Arab News<\/em>, Abdul Aziz Mohammed \u2013 who got married online \u2013 lauded the initiative. \u201cWe weren\u2019t planning on having a big wedding anyway, and this makes it easier on all of us. The money we would have spent on a wedding can go into savings instead, and no one will be at risk of catching the virus from our party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-272650\">Fayez Nureldine\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online portal of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Justice saw a high number of marriage contracts filed since March 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":272650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9649,15221,14155,15223,15224,14726,9595],"class_list":{"0":"post-272653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arab-en","9":"tag-casamento-online","10":"tag-coronavirus-en","11":"tag-marido-arabe","12":"tag-marriage","13":"tag-online-en","14":"tag-saudi-arabia-en"},"wps_subtitle":"An online portal of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Justice saw a high number of marriage contracts filed since March 16. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}