{"id":46527,"date":"2014-10-24T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_ebola_victims_feel_forsaken_says_liberian_r_c_bishop_fallah_bo\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T16:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T16:00:34","slug":"church_times_ebola_victims_feel_forsaken_says_liberian_r_c_bishop_fallah_bo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46527","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Ebola victims feel \u201d\u02dcforsaken\u2019 says Liberian R C Bishop Fallah Borwah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sufferers from of the Ebola virus in West Africa believe that &#8220;God has forsaken them&#8221;, a Liberian Roman Catholic bishop, the Rt Revd Anthony Fallah Borwah, has said.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Borwah was prevented from attending Pope Francis&#8217;s recent synod on the family because of the travel ban on countries affected by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>He urged his fellow bishops, and the Church, to remember that it was the poor who are their priority, and said that whole families were being &#8220;decimated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the US Catholic News Service, he said: &#8220;We are losing our humanity in the face of Ebola. . . This disease makes impossible ordinary human kindnesses, such as putting your arm around someone who is crying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2014\/24-october\/news\/world\/ebola-victims-feel-%E2%80%98forsaken%E2%80%99-says-liberian-bishop\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sufferers from of the Ebola virus in West Africa believe that &#8220;God has forsaken them&#8221;, a Liberian Roman Catholic bishop, the Rt Revd Anthony Fallah Borwah, has said. Bishop Borwah was prevented from attending Pope Francis&#8217;s recent synod on the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46527\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,202,175,168,104,524,154,184,436,177,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-liberia","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527","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=46527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}