{"id":83633,"date":"2019-07-11T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83633"},"modified":"2019-07-11T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:03:59","slug":"wcc-ugandan-anglican-university-students-address-violence-promote-hiv-testing-in-village-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83633","title":{"rendered":"(WCC) Ugandan Anglican university students address violence, promote HIV testing in village schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Makerere University in Uganda have launched an evangelical and health mission in Kayunga, one of the rural villages in Mityana district located about 50 km from Kampala, Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative follows the October 2018 launch of the Thursdays in Black Campaign against sexual and gender-based violence in Uganda by the Anglican community of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity at Makerere University.<\/p>\n<p>Kayunga is known for its high rate of school dropouts and early marriages, and the community is dominantly patriarchal. From 6-9 June, the Makerere University students under Buganda Anglican Youth Missioners and Thursdays in Black \u201cAmbassadors\u201d visited the village to spread Christian love through charity, and restore hope by promoting abundant life. They also created awareness about the need to test for HIV, and to address sexual and gender-based violence and safe sex practices to end the spread of HIV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oikoumene.org\/en\/press-centre\/news\/anglican-university-students-address-violence-promote-hiv-testing-in-village-schools\">Read it all<\/a> and enjoy the pictures.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Anglican students from Makarere University in Uganda reach out with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThursdaysinBlack?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThursdaysinBlack<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HIV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HIV<\/a> testing messages, spreading love and hope. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ToHPHAXeGA\">https:\/\/t.co\/ToHPHAXeGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vMMtvXQdku\">pic.twitter.com\/vMMtvXQdku<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 World Council of Churches (WCC) (@Oikoumene) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Oikoumene\/status\/1149248156217085958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Makerere University in Uganda have launched an evangelical and health mission in Kayunga, one of the rural villages in Mityana district located about 50 km from Kampala, Uganda. The initiative follows the October 2018 launch of the Thursdays<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83633\">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":[396,168,104,108,520,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-uganda","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-religion-culture","category-uganda-africa","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83633","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=83633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83635,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83633\/revisions\/83635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}