{"id":23547,"date":"2010-12-20T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sudanese_bishop_asks_for_prayers_ahead_of_key_upcoming_vote\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T18:30:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:30:28","slug":"sudanese_bishop_asks_for_prayers_ahead_of_key_upcoming_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23547","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese Episcopal Bishop asks for prayers ahead of key Upcoming  vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese Episcopal bishop Samuel Peni had one request for central Iowans he met with this week: Pray for us.<\/p>\n<p>Peni told people gathered during two nights last week at St. Timothy&#8217;s Episcopal Church in West Des Moines that a vote on Jan. 9 could split his native Sudan, Africa&#8217;s largest nation, in two. He hopes for an independent southern Sudan as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Getting that message out is why Peni left his ailing, pregnant wife behind to attend a summit of Sudanese refugees in Phoenix, Ariz., earlier in the week. He came to Iowa to visit the home of a local priest who befriended him during his studies at Wartburg Seminary in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20101220\/NEWS\/12200318\/1001\/NEWS\/Bishop-asks-for-prayers-ahead-of-Sudanese-vote\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese Episcopal bishop Samuel Peni had one request for central Iowans he met with this week: Pray for us. Peni told people gathered during two nights last week at St. Timothy&#8217;s Episcopal Church in West Des Moines that a vote<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23547\">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":[36,39,40,50,202,74,403,151,108,346,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-episcopal-church-of-the-sudan","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sudan","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547","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=23547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}