{"id":42107,"date":"2014-01-16T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_anglican_church_admits_its_first_nuns_in_namibia\/"},"modified":"2014-01-16T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T17:15:37","slug":"the_anglican_church_admits_its_first_nuns_in_namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42107","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church admits its first nuns in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Namibia of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa made history yesterday when it admitted its first celibate nuns during a ceremony held at the Onekwaya West Mission Station in the Ohangwena Region.<\/p>\n<p>The church\u2019s secretary and treasurer, Father Lukas Kaluwapa Katenda, said three young Namibian women took their vows of celibacy, poverty and obedience as Sisters of the Order of the Good Samaritan, a new religious order in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first in the history of the Anglican Church in Namibia,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.namibiansun.com\/local-news\/anglican-church-admits-its-first-nuns-in-namibia.59831\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Diocese of Namibia of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa made history yesterday when it admitted its first celibate nuns during a ceremony held at the Onekwaya West Mission Station in the Ohangwena Region. The church\u2019s secretary and treasurer,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42107\">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":[36,50,202,406,74,546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-church-of-southern-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-namibia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42107","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=42107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}