{"id":36739,"date":"2013-01-13T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/poverty_and_threat_from_new_churches_priorities_for_anglicans_in_west_afric\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:15:53","slug":"poverty_and_threat_from_new_churches_priorities_for_anglicans_in_west_afric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36739","title":{"rendered":"Poverty and &#34;threat from new churches&#34; priorities for Anglicans in West Africa, says new Primate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ACNS) West Africa\u2019s new archbishop , the Most Revd Solomon Tilewa Johnson [in an interview this week] explained that one major priority was responding to issues of \u201cabject poverty\u201d\u009d, which is perhaps to be expected considering the countries that comprise the Anglican Province of West Africa: Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>More surprising, however, was a priority to retain congregants who might be tempted away to non-Anglican churches by newer forms of praise and worship. \u201cWe all have our priorities and the key issues for us in West Africa as far as I can see is the threat posed to us by the new churches for example,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/news.cfm\/2013\/1\/10\/ACNS5288\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ACNS) West Africa\u2019s new archbishop , the Most Revd Solomon Tilewa Johnson [in an interview this week] explained that one major priority was responding to issues of \u201cabject poverty\u201d\u009d, which is perhaps to be expected considering the countries that comprise<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36739\">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":[36,48,39,50,202,392,74,540,183,88,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-province-of-west-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-gambia","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-poverty","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36739","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=36739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}