{"id":40693,"date":"2013-10-23T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christiantoday_chris_sugden-gafcon_former_spiritual_powerhouses_now_hostil\/"},"modified":"2013-10-23T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:46:34","slug":"christiantoday_chris_sugden-gafcon_former_spiritual_powerhouses_now_hostil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40693","title":{"rendered":"(ChristianToday) Chris Sugden&#8211;GAFCON: Former spiritual powerhouses now &#39;hostile&#39; to Christian faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day began with a Eucharist in Nairobi Cathedral where there was standing room only. Afterwards the 331 bishops, over a third of those in the Anglican Communion, gathered for a group photograph in which they gave the &#8220;One-way&#8221; sign.<\/p>\n<p>In his chairman&#8217;s address Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya said the challenge facing the church &#8220;is that the nations which were once the spiritual powerhouses of world wide mission have now become deeply secularised and even hostile to the Christian faith&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What really rots the fabric of the Communion is the process by which weak churches are gradually taken captive by the surrounding culture,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/gafcon.former.spiritual.powerhouses.now.hostile.to.christian.faith\/34459.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day began with a Eucharist in Nairobi Cathedral where there was standing room only. Afterwards the 331 bishops, over a third of those in the Anglican Communion, gathered for a group photograph in which they gave the &#8220;One-way&#8221; sign.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40693\">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":[36,48,400,74,440,512,78,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-church-of-kenya","category-anglican-provinces","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-gafcon-ii-2013","category-global-south-churches-primates","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40693","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=40693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}