{"id":43259,"date":"2014-03-26T17:26:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/failure_of_national_confab_will_have_grave_consequences-nigerian_anglican_\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T17:26:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:26:42","slug":"failure_of_national_confab_will_have_grave_consequences-nigerian_anglican_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43259","title":{"rendered":"Failure of National Confab will have grave consequences&#8211;Nigerian Anglican Primate Okoh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Nicholas Orogodo Okoh, believes strongly that the on-going National Conference must not fail, saying it is a great opportunity to resolve the challenges faced by Nigeria. He also speaks on the Boko Haram insurgency which has claimed many lives and affected the Church in the North-east and the controversial anti-gay law.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from interview:<br \/>\nThere are allegations lately that corruption has crept into Christianity with some men of God accused of sharp practices. How do you react to this?<br \/>\nI think you used an omnibus word \u201d\u02dcsharp practices\u2019. I don\u2019t know what it means because it could mean so many things. Can you be more specific?<br \/>\nCorruption has one definition, unethical practice. That is exactly what I am talking about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codewit.com\/nigeria-news\/17475-failure-of-national-confab-will-have-grave-consequences-okoh-primate-of-anglican-church\">Read it all<\/a> (from the long queue of should-have-already-been-posted material).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Nicholas Orogodo Okoh, believes strongly that the on-going National Conference must not fail, saying it is a great opportunity to resolve the challenges faced by Nigeria. He also speaks on the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43259\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,202,74,390,143,168,161,426,114,659,327,155,578,151,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-nigeria","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43259","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=43259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}