{"id":4682,"date":"2008-02-19T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/police_beat_up_anglican_parishioners_in_harare\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T19:34:00","slug":"police_beat_up_anglican_parishioners_in_harare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4682","title":{"rendered":"Police beat up Anglican parishioners in Harare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riot police have arrested the Harare deputy sheriff trying to open the Anglican cathedral for a Sunday service, the cathedral church warden Sekai Chibaya said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The cathedral had been illegally occupied by a renegade pro-ruling party ex-priest and baton-charged parishioners waiting for the church to be opened and to begin a service, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Watched by a group of about 20 parishioners on Sunday, a locksmith accompanying the deputy-sheriff &#8211; whose name was not immediately available &#8211; had just used a bolt cutter to open the padlock on the gate to the cathedral when a squad of riot police drove up, Chibaya said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&#038;click_id=84&#038;art_id=nw20080218134303306C522792\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot police have arrested the Harare deputy sheriff trying to open the Anglican cathedral for a Sunday service, the cathedral church warden Sekai Chibaya said Monday. The cathedral had been illegally occupied by a renegade pro-ruling party ex-priest and baton-charged<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4682\">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":[36,50,72,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-latest-news","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682","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=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}