{"id":1489,"date":"2007-08-21T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nigeria_anglican_church_reaffirm_hiv_test_before_marriage\/"},"modified":"2007-08-21T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T22:25:00","slug":"nigeria_anglican_church_reaffirm_hiv_test_before_marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Anglican Church Reaffirm HIV Test Before Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couples must first take an HIV test before they will be allowed to marry, the Anglican Church in Nigeria has reaffirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The church noted that the move was to help parishioners make &#8220;informed choices&#8221; when choosing marriage partners.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC News website learnt that many Christian churches in Nigeria impose similar tests on their members as a condition for marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The policy is being implemented in all Anglican dioceses across Nigeria, the church&#8217;s spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The aim is to help intending couples to make informed decisions because we don&#8217;t want anyone to be kept in the dark about their partner,&#8221; spokesman for the church Rev Akintunde Popoola told the BBC News website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200708200703.html\" >Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couples must first take an HIV test before they will be allowed to marry, the Anglican Church in Nigeria has reaffirmed. The church noted that the move was to help parishioners make &#8220;informed choices&#8221; when choosing marriage partners. The BBC<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1489\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,74,390,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-nigeria","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}