{"id":186425,"date":"2024-12-12T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-catholic-bishops-condemn-post-election-violence\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:31:08","slug":"ghana-catholic-bishops-condemn-post-election-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-catholic-bishops-condemn-post-election-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Catholic Bishops Condemn Post-Election Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference has condemned violence and unrest that have erupted following the 2024 general election, and called on the police to act for immediate cessation of all such activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">&#8220;This unrest has resulted in the loss of lives, destruction of property, and deepened divisions among citizens. Such actions are unacceptable and go against Ghana&#8217;s core values of peace, unity, and respect for life,&#8221; the President of the Bishops Conference, Most Rev. Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412120154.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 Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference has condemned violence and unrest that have erupted following the 2024 general election, and called on the police to act for immediate cessation of all such activities. &#8220;This unrest has resulted in the loss of lives, destruction of property, and deepened divisions among citizens. Such actions are unacceptable and go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186426,"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":[258,256,11244,10991,6764,4508,4509,257,15492,254,2148],"class_list":["post-186425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bishops","tag-catholic","tag-condemn","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-postelection","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence"],"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\/186425","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=186425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}