{"id":36967,"date":"2013-01-26T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nigeria_on_the_brink_unless-_-_anglican_primate_okoh\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T16:00:09","slug":"nigeria_on_the_brink_unless-_-_anglican_primate_okoh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36967","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria on the brink, unless&#8230; &#8211; Anglican Primate, Okoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, has warned that Nigeria must fashion a way to rekindle the selfless nature of its citizenry as well as the Christian virtue of humility and sacrifice if the country must survive.<\/p>\n<p>In a sermon he delivered at the funeral of a former Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Most Reverend Abiodun Adetiloye, held at the St. Paul\u2019s Millennium Anglican Church, Odo-Owa in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, the cleric contended that unless Nigerians repented and returned to the values of God, the country would not make any headway.<\/p>\n<p>Okoh, who took his sermon from 2 Timothy 4: 7 and 8, noted: \u201cWe are not here to help Archbishop Adetiloye but to help ourselves to see if we can realign with God and make a meaning of our life.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.ng\/news2013\/index.php\/en\/component\/k2\/item\/3911-nigeria-on-the-brink-unless-anglican-primate-okoh\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, has warned that Nigeria must fashion a way to rekindle the selfless nature of its citizenry as well as the Christian virtue of humility and sacrifice if the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36967\">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-36967","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\/36967","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=36967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}