{"id":29141,"date":"2011-11-05T02:28:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eni_sudan_churches_remain_united_despite_country_division\/"},"modified":"2011-11-05T02:28:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:28:44","slug":"eni_sudan_churches_remain_united_despite_country_division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29141","title":{"rendered":"(ENI) Sudan churches remain united despite country division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite this year&#8217;s vote by South Sudan for independence, churches in Sudan and South Sudan have decided to remain united, mainly to help denominations in Muslim-majority Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church on 28 October approved maintaining one conference covering the two states, alluding to shared history and existing &#8220;very real practical human links.&#8221; In July, the Episcopal (Anglican) Church decided to remain one body for the next two years and the Sudan Council of Churches has also said it will not split.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more about solidarity,&#8221; observed John Ashworth, an advisor with the Sudan Ecumenical Forum, which enhances churches&#8217; work for peace in Sudan, on 3 November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eni.ch\/featured\/article.php?id=5261\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite this year&#8217;s vote by South Sudan for independence, churches in Sudan and South Sudan have decided to remain united, mainly to help denominations in Muslim-majority Sudan. Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church on 28 October approved maintaining one conference<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29141\">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":[36,39,50,42,663,664,202,74,403,154,108,346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-north-sudan","category-south-sudan","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-episcopal-church-of-the-sudan","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29141","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=29141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}