{"id":34010,"date":"2012-08-12T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_kaduna_anglican_bishop_laments_30_percent_drop_in_church_attendance\/"},"modified":"2012-08-12T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T19:00:37","slug":"in_kaduna_anglican_bishop_laments_30_percent_drop_in_church_attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34010","title":{"rendered":"In Kaduna, Bishop Josiah Fearon Laments 30 Percent Drop in Church Attendance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) said on Friday that worshippers&#8217; attendance in its churches has dropped by 30 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The Diocesan Bishop, Most Rev. Josiah Fearon, after the First Session of the 19th Synod in Kaduna, attributed the poor attendance of faithful to the current national security challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Fearon said the drop in church attendance had also contributed to a 60 per cent drop in financial support to the church through the offering of tithes and the Church fund raising for the development of projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201208110459.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna Diocese of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) said on Friday that worshippers&#8217; attendance in its churches has dropped by 30 per cent. The Diocesan Bishop, Most Rev. Josiah Fearon, after the First Session of the 19th Synod<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34010\">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":[36,74,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34010","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=34010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}