{"id":199884,"date":"2025-06-10T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-first-liberian-catholic-nun-dies\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:00:56","slug":"liberia-first-liberian-catholic-nun-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-first-liberian-catholic-nun-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: First Liberian Catholic Nun Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"81\">Sister Doctor Maria Rosalita Roberts, DHM, hailed from Rivercess in Roivercess County. She was the daughter of Mr. Gallow Roberts and Ms. Rachel Thomas both of Rivercess. While studying at the St. Theresa Convent School, she converted from Methodism to Catholicism and by the grace of God she answered the call to Religious Life, thereby showing to other Liberian girls, that if they listen closely, they too, can hear His voice calling them to a privileged, yet undeserving intimacy with God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Sister&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506100061.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Doctor Maria Rosalita Roberts, DHM, hailed from Rivercess in Roivercess County. She was the daughter of Mr. Gallow Roberts and Ms. Rachel Thomas both of Rivercess. While studying at the St. Theresa Convent School, she converted from Methodism to Catholicism and by the grace of God she answered the call to Religious Life, thereby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199885,"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":[258,256,10991,6868,4712,1107,1090,257,43353,254],"class_list":["post-199884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catholic","tag-dies","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-news","tag-nun","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\/199884","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=199884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}