{"id":37244,"date":"2013-02-11T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_african_archbishop_calls_for_carbon_fast_for_lent\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:00:42","slug":"south_african_archbishop_calls_for_carbon_fast_for_lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37244","title":{"rendered":"South African Archbishop calls for Carbon Fast for Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lent is a time of repentance and fasting, of turning away from all that is counter to God\u2019s will and purposes for his world and all who live in it&#8221;, he said. &#8220;This year, I invite Anglicans to focus their Lenten \u201d\u02dcacts of love and sacrifice\u2019 on our contribution to climate change, and on those most impacted by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Makgoba chairs the Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN) and is Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa which includes some of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Two of the Church\u2019s dioceses, Lebombo and Niassa in Mozambique, have recently been hit by devastating floods, leaving more than 150,000 people homeless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/news.cfm\/2013\/2\/7\/ACNS5310\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lent is a time of repentance and fasting, of turning away from all that is counter to God\u2019s will and purposes for his world and all who live in it&#8221;, he said. &#8220;This year, I invite Anglicans to focus their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37244\">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":[36,48,39,40,406,74,187,140,168,569,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anglican-church-of-southern-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-lent","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37244","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=37244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}