{"id":207627,"date":"2025-09-19T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-seeks-church-support-to-sell-difficult-decisions-to-kenyans\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:04:08","slug":"kenya-ruto-seeks-church-support-to-sell-difficult-decisions-to-kenyans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-seeks-church-support-to-sell-difficult-decisions-to-kenyans\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Seeks Church Support to Sell &#8216;Difficult Decisions&#8217; to Kenyans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has asked the Church to support the government&#8217;s transformation agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The President told the clergy to be at the forefront of making Kenyans understand that transformation is possible if the right policies are implemented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The transformation of the country, he noted, is dependent on the success of manufacturing, affordable housing, food security and provision of healthcare to everyone, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has asked the Church to support the government&#8217;s transformation agenda. The President told the clergy to be at the forefront of making Kenyans understand that transformation is possible if the right policies are implemented. The transformation of the country, he noted, is dependent on the success of manufacturing, affordable housing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":207628,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,6581,14296,10795,4688,430,9058,257,11238,8111,11184,254,6096],"class_list":["post-207627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-church","tag-decisions","tag-difficult","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-seeks","tag-sell","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"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\/207627","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}