{"id":29383,"date":"2011-11-17T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/popes_visit_seen_as_possible_counter_to_african_secularization\/"},"modified":"2011-11-17T18:35:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:35:47","slug":"popes_visit_seen_as_possible_counter_to_african_secularization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29383","title":{"rendered":"(CNA) Pope\u2019s visit seen as possible counter to African secularization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> With only days to go before the Pope arrives in the African country of Benin, Bishop Barth\u00c3\u00a9lemy Adoukonou says he hopes Benedict XVI\u2019s visit to his homeland will help Africa resist secularization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome within the secularized culture of the West are trying to direct all mankind in the same direction, and (it\u2019s) the wrong direction,\u201d\u009d the secretary of the Vatican\u2019s Pontifical Council for Culture told CNA Nov 15.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Adoukonou said the influence of secularism is \u201ca great injustice against other cultures, including our African culture, which is very much open to God.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/popes-visit-seen-as-possible-counter-to-african-secularization\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only days to go before the Pope arrives in the African country of Benin, Bishop Barth\u00c3\u00a9lemy Adoukonou says he hopes Benedict XVI\u2019s visit to his homeland will help Africa resist secularization. \u201cSome within the secularized culture of the West<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29383\">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":[39,50,42,202,532,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-benin","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383","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=29383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}