{"id":1793,"date":"2023-01-23T14:55:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:55:52","slug":"mozambique-gvnt-bans-johanne-marange-apostolic-sect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=1793","title":{"rendered":"MOZAMBIQUE GVNT BANS JOHANNE MARANGE APOSTOLIC SECT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Angelah Nothando Mlotshwa<br>Environment and Health Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports emanating from Mozambique say the National Director of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs of that country Alibachir Macassar has banned some religious institutions with &#8220;obscure purposes&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The church has been banned for allegedly encouraging child marriage and disregarding health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To discipline some behaviour and excesses of certain religious denominations, a draft Law on Religious Freedom and Worship is under discussion to regulate the exercise of this activity in Mozambique&#8221;, said Macassar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the interview with Radio Mozambique, Macassar insisted that the government of Mozambique is not interfering with religious worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They must possess a letter of recommendation from the top leader of the previous religious grouping, attesting to their suitability to found another congregation&#8221;, added Macassar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile in Zimbabwe, another 14 year old Delight Masomeke of Johanne Masowe, of Bvumbura Village died a few weeks back after giving birth at home in Buhera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angelah Nothando MlotshwaEnvironment and Health Reporter Reports emanating from Mozambique say the National Director of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs of that country Alibachir Macassar has banned some religious institutions&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}