{"id":200973,"date":"2025-06-26T13:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-they-are-destroying-our-communities-catholic-archbishop-in-angola-calls-for-criminalization-of-diviners\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:29:25","slug":"angola-they-are-destroying-our-communities-catholic-archbishop-in-angola-calls-for-criminalization-of-diviners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-they-are-destroying-our-communities-catholic-archbishop-in-angola-calls-for-criminalization-of-diviners\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: &#8216;They Are Destroying Our Communities&#8217; &#8211; Catholic Archbishop in Angola Calls for Criminalization of Diviners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Saurimo \u2014 &#8220;They are destroying communities, dividing families, and hindering development,&#8221; said Jos\u00e9 Manuel Imbamba, Archbishop of Saurimo, speaking to a group of journalists at the end of a pastoral visit to the parishes of Our Lady of Fatima in Muconda and Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of the Child Jesus in Dala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">He was referring to the strong influence and impact that &#8220;diviners, fortune tellers, and clairvoyants&#8221; have on the population. The Archbishop has called for the criminalization of diviners in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506260059.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saurimo \u2014 &#8220;They are destroying communities, dividing families, and hindering development,&#8221; said Jos\u00e9 Manuel Imbamba, Archbishop of Saurimo, speaking to a group of journalists at the end of a pastoral visit to the parishes of Our Lady of Fatima in Muconda and Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of the Child Jesus in Dala. He was referring to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200974,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,10179,6137,10991,7103,51739,14754,51740,257,254],"class_list":["post-200973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-archbishop","tag-calls","tag-catholic","tag-communities","tag-criminalization","tag-destroying","tag-diviners","tag-news","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\/200973","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}