{"id":201065,"date":"2025-06-27T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-zion-christian-church-leader-visits-botswana-as-infighting-threatens-to-tear-church-apart\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:37:48","slug":"botswana-zion-christian-church-leader-visits-botswana-as-infighting-threatens-to-tear-church-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-zion-christian-church-leader-visits-botswana-as-infighting-threatens-to-tear-church-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Zion Christian Church Leader Visits Botswana As Infighting Threatens to Tear Church Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Two warring factions have claimed legitimacy as the true St Engenas Zion Christian Church in Botswana, with one, until recently, legally registered and the other with close ties to the leadership in Moria, Limpopo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Two warring factions have claimed legitimacy as the true St Engenas Zion Christian Church in Botswana, with one, until recently, legally registered and the other with close ties to the leadership in Moria, Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A fierce leadership battle between two factions of the St Engenas Zion&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270114.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two warring factions have claimed legitimacy as the true St Engenas Zion Christian Church in Botswana, with one, until recently, legally registered and the other with close ties to the leadership in Moria, Limpopo. Two warring factions have claimed legitimacy as the true St Engenas Zion Christian Church in Botswana, with one, until recently, legally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201066,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,464,6581,23711,7079,257,254,14894,10413,7189,42602],"class_list":["post-201065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-christian","tag-church","tag-infighting","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tear","tag-threatens","tag-visits","tag-zion"],"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\/201065","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=201065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}