{"id":40747,"date":"2013-10-26T20:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gafcon_leaders_point_to_strong_foundation_of_the_bible_at_second_press_gath\/"},"modified":"2013-10-26T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T20:36:04","slug":"gafcon_leaders_point_to_strong_foundation_of_the_bible_at_second_press_gath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40747","title":{"rendered":"GAFCON Leaders Point to \u201cStrong Foundation of the Bible\u201d\u009d at Second Press Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat [GAFCON] has come to the soil of Africa has been historic,\u201d\u009d noted Nigerian Archbishop Ben Kwashi, calling the conference \u201ca blessing.\u201d\u009d Praising the depth of Bible teaching at the event, the leader of Jos diocese highlighted conference concerns such as care of the oppressed and sharing of one another\u2019s burdens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an African, I\u2019m tired of hearing all the bad news about Africa,\u201d\u009d Kwashi candidly stated. \u201cGAFCON has given good news.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\nKwashi, whose diocese in Nigeria\u2019s middle belt has been hard hit by Islamist violence, noted that \u201cmilitants are as merciless to Christians as they are to peaceful Muslims.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love and are called to love \u201d\u201d in this many Christians have lost their lives. In time, militancy will be defeated, but we have to communicate with those who do not love us \u201d\u201d that isn\u2019t easy.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2013\/10\/26\/gafcon-leaders-point-to-strong-foundation-of-the-bible-at-second-press-gathering\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThat [GAFCON] has come to the soil of Africa has been historic,\u201d\u009d noted Nigerian Archbishop Ben Kwashi, calling the conference \u201ca blessing.\u201d\u009d Praising the depth of Bible teaching at the event, the leader of Jos diocese highlighted conference concerns such<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40747\">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":[36,512,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-gafcon-ii-2013","category-global-south-churches-primates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40747","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=40747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}