{"id":51199,"date":"2015-08-13T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_kenyan_clergy_joins_battle_against_deadly_homemade_brews\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:30:41","slug":"rns_kenyan_clergy_joins_battle_against_deadly_homemade_brews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51199","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Kenyan clergy joins battle against deadly homemade brews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 4 million Kenyans consume illegal alcoholic brews, found a 2013 survey by the National Authority for the Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse. The biggest challenge is corruption among government officials, said the agency\u2019s John Mututho.<\/p>\n<p>Some clergy have been joining community members to seek out and storm the makeshift breweries \u201d\u201d many just drums or pots hidden in forests, private residences or buried near riverbeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commend the steps taken by the president. As clergy, we do not encourage drinking,\u201d\u009d said Anglican Bishop Julius Kalu of Mombasa. \u201cWe urge more steps to ensure those addicted are rehabilitated.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Kyalo agrees. The president, he said, \u201ctook bold steps, but he has to address the root cause of the problem. This is deeply rooted, where people are poor. He must deal with poverty, which is increasing.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/religion\/kenyan-clergy-joins-battle-against-deadly-homemade-brews\/2015\/08\/12\/e3da3e92-4125-11e5-9f53-d1e3ddfd0cda_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 4 million Kenyans consume illegal alcoholic brews, found a 2013 survey by the National Authority for the Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse. The biggest challenge is corruption among government officials, said the agency\u2019s John Mututho. Some clergy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51199\">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":[36,39,40,50,202,90,86,400,74,175,168,329,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-alcoholdrinking","category-alcoholism","category-anglican-church-of-kenya","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-kenya","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51199","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=51199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}