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Monrovia \u2014 Three senators on Tuesday submitted a landmark bill to the Liberian Senate seeking to establish both Christian and Muslim holy days as official national holidays–marking a bold attempt to quell long-standing religious tensions over unequal recognition.<\/p>\n
The legislation, titled “An Act to Establish Certain Religious Holidays in the Republic of Liberia,” is sponsored by Lofa County Senator Cllr. Joseph Jallah and co-sponsored by Senators Edwin Melvin Snowe of Bomi and Amara M. Konneh of…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Monrovia \u2014 Three senators on Tuesday submitted a landmark bill to the Liberian Senate seeking to establish both Christian and Muslim holy days as official national holidays–marking a bold attempt to quell long-standing religious tensions over unequal recognition. The legislation, titled “An Act to Establish Certain Religious Holidays in the Republic of Liberia,” is sponsored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,464,12152,7077,1107,1090,463,257,5982,23098,11021,9179,254],"class_list":["post-198528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-christian","tag-holidays","tag-law","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-muslim","tag-news","tag-officially","tag-propose","tag-recognize","tag-senators","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/198528","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=198528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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