{"id":5046,"date":"2016-10-28T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2016-10-28T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T12:06:44","slug":"zambia-pope-francis-prays-for-zambias-continued-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/28\/zambia-pope-francis-prays-for-zambias-continued-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"ZAMBIA: Pope Francis Prays for Zambia\u2019s Continued Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By Mwenya Mukuka<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pope Francis has prayed that all the Zambian people will continue to pursue the common good for a more peaceful and just society. He also commended Zambia to the providence of the Almighty God and prayed that all Zambians may enjoy peace and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pope said this in a message of congratulations to His Excellency Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu President of the Republic of Zambia on the occasion marking Zambia\u2019s 52nd independence anniversary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI extend cordial greetings to Your Excellency and your fellow citizens on the happy occasion of Zambia\u2019s National Day. In praying that all in the nation will continue to pursue the common good for a peaceful and just society, l willingly invoke upon you the blessings of the Almighty God,\u201d the Pope said in a letter to the President.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zambia got independence from the British on 24th October, 1964.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u223d<em>Ends<\/em>\u223d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mwenya Mukuka Pope Francis has prayed that all the Zambian people will continue to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","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\/5046","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=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}