{"id":36579,"date":"2013-01-03T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_bishop_of_upper_shire_in_malawi_under_fire_for_participation_in_a_\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:00:30","slug":"anglican_bishop_of_upper_shire_in_malawi_under_fire_for_participation_in_a_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36579","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Bishop of Upper Shire in Malawi under fire for participation in a prayer function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Reverend Brighton Vitta Malasa, the Anglican Bishop of the Upper Shire Diocese has come under intense fire from his flock for being among the \u201d\u02dcofficiating clergy\u2019 at \u201d\u02dcNew Year Prayers\u2019 held at Mulli Brothers Limited Headquarters in Chigumula, Blantyre \u201cwithout appropriate justification\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>There were \u201d\u02dcNew Year Prayers\u2019 at Mulli Brothers premises on Wednesday \u201cto pray for blessings in 2013\u201d\u009d and according to an Anglican Christian who attended the function, \u201cit was all politics and not prayers.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was all politics where the officiating clergy that also included former president late Bingu wa Mutharika\u2019s  advisor, Reverend Bill Gama and Reverend Misheck Nasiyaya, both of the Blantyre Synod, kept on referring to the former DPP regime in their sermons&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyasatimes.com\/malawi\/2013\/01\/03\/malawi-anglican-bishop-under-fire-for-leading-prayers-at-mulli\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Reverend Brighton Vitta Malasa, the Anglican Bishop of the Upper Shire Diocese has come under intense fire from his flock for being among the \u201d\u02dcofficiating clergy\u2019 at \u201d\u02dcNew Year Prayers\u2019 held at Mulli Brothers Limited Headquarters in Chigumula,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36579\">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":[36,48,39,50,72,202,74,407,537,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-latest-news","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-central-africa","category-malawi","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579","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=36579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}