{"id":26529,"date":"2011-06-04T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/thousands_attend_martyrs_day_celebrations_in_uganda\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T02:00:09","slug":"thousands_attend_martyrs_day_celebrations_in_uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26529","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend Martyrs\u2019 Day celebrations in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of pilgrims yesterday flocked to both the Catholic and Anglican shrines at Namugongo, near Kampala, to mark the Martyrs day.<\/p>\n<p>Every June 3, Christians of the two denominations in the region and the rest of Africa pay homage to the 45 Martyrs, who were killed by Buganda King Muwanga II in 1884, for converting to Christianity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/D\/8\/12\/756569\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of pilgrims yesterday flocked to both the Catholic and Anglican shrines at Namugongo, near Kampala, to mark the Martyrs day. Every June 3, Christians of the two denominations in the region and the rest of Africa pay homage to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26529\">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":[36,39,50,202,74,396,108,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-uganda","category-religion-culture","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529","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=26529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}