{"id":58130,"date":"2017-03-19T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58130"},"modified":"2017-03-19T17:19:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T21:19:15","slug":"profile-of-a-man-born-a-muslim-in-sierra-leone-who-is-now-a-tec-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58130","title":{"rendered":"Profile of a man Born a Muslim in Sierra Leone who is now a TEC Priest in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Charles Kamano will take a major step on his journey that began under radical Islam when he celebrates his first Mass as an Episcopal priest Sunday at the Church of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Born a Muslim in Sierra Leone, Kamano converted to Roman Catholicism and was ordained in that church, and he became an Episcopal priest in a ceremony at the Church Street parish on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Kamano\u2019s attraction to Christianity began when he persuaded his father to allow him to attend a local Catholic school, even though the elder Kamano was a strict member of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi sect of Islam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/social-affairs\/20170318\/west-haven-episcopal-priests-path-a-journey-of-faith\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Charles Kamano will take a major step on his journey that began under radical Islam when he celebrates his first Mass as an Episcopal priest Sunday at the Church of the Holy Spirit. Born a Muslim in Sierra<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58130\">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":[66,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58130","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=58130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58133,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58130\/revisions\/58133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}