{"id":56789,"date":"2016-12-22T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/congos_rc_bishops_urge_settlement_of_political_crisis_before_christmas\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T17:00:21","slug":"congos_rc_bishops_urge_settlement_of_political_crisis_before_christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56789","title":{"rendered":"Congo&#39;s RC Bishops Urge Settlement of Political Crisis Before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congo Bishops urge settlement of political crisis before Christmas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d3iib4OCzT\">https:\/\/t.co\/d3iib4OCzT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ\/status\/811910665761914880\">December 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mediators urged Congo\u2019s president and opposition parties to reach an agreement before Christmas on a peaceful settlement to the country\u2019s political crisis, saying dozens already have been killed this week amid protests over the president\u2019s stay in power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnough is enough,\u201d\u009d Msgr. Marcel Utembi, one of the Catholic Church mediators, said Wednesday. \u201cA solution must be found as soon as possible by all political actors, but in particular by the government in order to reassure the Congolese people.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He also conveyed a message from Pope Francis following their meeting this week: \u201cI am concerned by what is happening in your country, which I wish to visit at the opportune moment. I pray for the Congolese people, who need peace so much now.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/congo-bishops-urge-settlement-of-political-crisis-before-christmas-1482406985\">Read it all<\/a> from the WSJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congo Bishops urge settlement of political crisis before Christmas https:\/\/t.co\/d3iib4OCzT &mdash; Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 22, 2016 Mediators urged Congo\u2019s president and opposition parties to reach an agreement before Christmas on a peaceful settlement to the country\u2019s political crisis,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56789\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,175,143,168,133,154,151,108,553,364,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-republic-of-congo","category-roman-catholic","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56789","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=56789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}