{"id":203509,"date":"2025-07-29T09:41:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-mixed-reactions-as-president-boakai-declares-july-30-a-national-holiday-for-prayer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:41:59","slug":"liberia-mixed-reactions-as-president-boakai-declares-july-30-a-national-holiday-for-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-mixed-reactions-as-president-boakai-declares-july-30-a-national-holiday-for-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Mixed Reactions As President Boakai Declares July 30 a National Holiday for Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Monrovia \u2014 Liberians have expressed mixed reactions following President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s decision to declare Wednesday, July 30 a National Day of Prayer and a national holiday across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to a release from the Executive Mansion, the declaration is in recognition of what it described as &#8220;the enduring grace of God upon the nation&#8221; and the &#8220;unyielding spirit of the Liberian people through times of trial and triumph.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Executive Mansion said the day will include interfaith&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507290058.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>Monrovia \u2014 Liberians have expressed mixed reactions following President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s decision to declare Wednesday, July 30 a National Day of Prayer and a national holiday across the country. According to a release from the Executive Mansion, the declaration is in recognition of what it described as &#8220;the enduring grace of God upon the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203510,"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":[258,256,7324,7030,5268,11170,4712,1107,8467,6687,257,13634,2450,18072,254],"class_list":["post-203509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-declares","tag-holiday","tag-july","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mixed","tag-national","tag-news","tag-prayer","tag-president","tag-reactions","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\/203509","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=203509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}