{"id":4849,"date":"2016-09-16T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2016-09-16T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:54:56","slug":"tanzania-bukoba-earthquake-leaves-bishops-residences-and-parish-churches-with-huge-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/16\/tanzania-bukoba-earthquake-leaves-bishops-residences-and-parish-churches-with-huge-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"TANZANIA: Bukoba Earthquake leaves Bishops\u2019 Residences and Parish Churches with huge cracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4850 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bukoba1.jpg\" alt=\"bukoba1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bukoba1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bukoba1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>The Catholic Church in Bukoba is among the institutions seriously affected by the Bukoba quake which hit the region at the end of last week. The Earthquake was said to have weighed 5.7 Richter scale, the largest in recent times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4851 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bukoba2.jpg\" alt=\"bukoba2\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" \/>According to the Auxilliary Bishop of Bukoba, Rt. Rev. Method Kilaini the earthquake caused damage to two Bishop\u2019s Houses; Parish Buildings; Priests\u2019 houses, Schools and St Augustine University of Tanzania \u2013SAUT \u2013 Bukoba Campus among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishop Kilaini said that the damage also affected the oldest Church in the Region, Our Lady of Seven Sorrows, Kashozi. This church was built between 1892 and 1897. It suffered serious cracks that would necessitate its reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4852 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bukoba4.jpg\" alt=\"bukoba4\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>The damages to the Bishops\u2019 residences forced them to vacate their residences and look for accommodation elsewhere. The same was done for priests whose houses and property were destroyed by the quake lost their houses and their properties damaged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4853 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bukoba5.jpg\" alt=\"bukoba5\" width=\"200\" height=\"120\" \/>The Auxillary Bishop further noted that \u201cit is not only the church that was affected but the entire community of Kashozi was affected, as some families were left homeless by the Earth Quake\u201d Bishop Kilaini said that emergency measures are being undertaken by the Catholic Diocese of Bukoba to rescue the Kashozi Parish Church building lest it fell down. \u201cWe also want to ensure that the two priests houses damaged are repaired so that Priest can go back and have a decent accommodation again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<em>By Sarah Pelaji, Kiongozi newspaper, TEC<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u223dEnd\u223d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church in Bukoba is among the institutions seriously affected by the Bukoba quake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","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=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}