{"id":184762,"date":"2024-11-17T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T08:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-urges-clergy-to-be-factual-while-engaging-in-matters-of-public-interest\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T10:52:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T08:52:44","slug":"kenya-president-ruto-urges-clergy-to-be-factual-while-engaging-in-matters-of-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-urges-clergy-to-be-factual-while-engaging-in-matters-of-public-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: President Ruto Urges Clergy to Be Factual While Engaging in Matters of Public Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has lauded the ongoing conversation about the state of affairs in the country but cautioned against falsehoods and inaccurate information.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In a veiled response to Thursday&#8217;s statement by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on government failure, President Ruto urged religious leaders to be careful and not spread falsehoods and misinformation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">His remarks follow strong criticism by Catholic bishops when they described the government as one fostering a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411150336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has lauded the ongoing conversation about the state of affairs in the country but cautioned against falsehoods and inaccurate information. In a veiled response to Thursday&#8217;s statement by the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on government failure, President Ruto urged religious leaders to be careful and not spread falsehoods and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":184763,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,8129,12199,49998,4378,4688,430,13497,257,2450,5751,11238,254,6810],"class_list":["post-184762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clergy","tag-engaging","tag-factual","tag-interest","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-matters","tag-news","tag-president","tag-public","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"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\/184762","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}