{"id":38579,"date":"2013-06-06T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/acns_zimbabwe_anglicans_return_to_shrine_for_bernard_mizeki_celebrations\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T16:32:09","slug":"acns_zimbabwe_anglicans_return_to_shrine_for_bernard_mizeki_celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38579","title":{"rendered":"(ACNS) Zimbabwe Anglicans return to shrine for Bernard Mizeki celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of pilgrims from Zimbabwe and beyond are expected to gather in Harare next week to commemorate the life of Bernard Mizeki, a lay African catechist and missionary martyred in 1896.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrations, between 14 \u201d\u201c 16 June, will be the first ones held at the martyr\u2019s shrine in more than five years. Previously Anglican pilgrims had been barred from the site by excommunicated former bishop Nolbert Kunonga.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop of Harare the Rt Revd Chad Gandiya told ACNS, \u201cAfter having been in exile for five years and failing to host these celebrations at the shrine, this years\u2019 celebrations are indeed special and the theme God is faithful could not be more timely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/news.cfm\/2013\/6\/6\/ACNS5402\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of pilgrims from Zimbabwe and beyond are expected to gather in Harare next week to commemorate the life of Bernard Mizeki, a lay African catechist and missionary martyred in 1896. The celebrations, between 14 \u201d\u201c 16 June, will be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38579\">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":[36,48,50,202,186,526],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-church-history","category-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579","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=38579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}