{"id":18950,"date":"2024-01-05T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=18950"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:21:32","slug":"uganda-archbishop-odama-calls-for-peace-and-love-in-the-new-year-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/05\/uganda-archbishop-odama-calls-for-peace-and-love-in-the-new-year-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"UGANDA: Archbishop Odama Calls for Peace and Love in the New Year 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Flavia Oyuu<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Archbishop of Uganda\u2019s Gulu Archdiocese Most Reverend John Baptist Odama has urged humanity to make 2024, a year of peace and love by reducing violence in society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made this appeal on Monday, January 01, in a media engagement shortly after attending the religious profession of Sisters under the Institute of Missionary Sisters of Mary Mother of the Church (MSMMC) at Ngetta in Uganda\u2019s Lira diocese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prelate called it a shame that after a million years of existence, human beings are still fighting each other, the reason why he called for tolerance, forgiveness reconciliation, and peaceful coexistence in the new year 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citing wars between Ukraine and Russia, Palestine and Israel as well as the insecurity which is still in Sudan and South Sudan, Archbishop Odama revealed that it is a sign that people have not yet been transformed by the birth of Jesus Christ in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Jesus Christ was born to bring transformation in the lives of human beings, unity between God and Humanity, and people among themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Archbishop further reiterated that the year 2024 should be violence-free saying that it should begin from homesteads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">End<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Oyuu The Archbishop of Uganda\u2019s Gulu Archdiocese Most Reverend John Baptist Odama has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18951,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18950\/revisions\/18951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}