{"id":179974,"date":"2024-09-05T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T14:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-engage-in-politics-devoid-of-envy-bitterness-most-rev-asante\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T14:46:35","slug":"ghana-engage-in-politics-devoid-of-envy-bitterness-most-rev-asante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-engage-in-politics-devoid-of-envy-bitterness-most-rev-asante\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Engage in Politics Devoid of Envy, Bitterness &#8211; Most Rev. Asante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Methodist Church, Ghana has urged politicians and those competing for higher positions in the country to desist from distorting the facts of their competitors to gain sympathy from the electorate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">According to the church, those vying for leadership position, be it political or religion, must act devoid of envy and bitterness because sometimes prejudice and jealousy could lead to distortion of facts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Most Rev. Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Asante, past Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409040259.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Methodist Church, Ghana has urged politicians and those competing for higher positions in the country to desist from distorting the facts of their competitors to gain sympathy from the electorate. According to the church, those vying for leadership position, be it political or religion, must act devoid of envy and bitterness because sometimes prejudice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7534,49442,10544,11444,43847,4508,4509,257,6916,9992,254],"class_list":["post-179974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asante","tag-bitterness","tag-devoid","tag-engage","tag-envy","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-rev","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}