{"id":208237,"date":"2025-09-26T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-church-plays-major-role-in-fight-against-social-ills\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:00:48","slug":"botswana-church-plays-major-role-in-fight-against-social-ills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-church-plays-major-role-in-fight-against-social-ills\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Church Plays Major Role in Fight Against Social Ills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Serowe \u2014 Church leaders have been urged to continue praying for HIV\/AIDS and other significant social issues impacting Botswana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"81\">Speaking during the official launch of the Month of Prayer in Serowe on Tuesday, Ms Dziidzo Leshiba, a nurse at Serowe district council said September was a special month for all Batswana to pray for HIV\/AIDS and other social ills. She said that the 2025 Month of Prayer Against HIV\/AIDS and other social ills, under the theme: By His Grace, Generation Now, Our Future&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260022.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>Serowe \u2014 Church leaders have been urged to continue praying for HIV\/AIDS and other significant social issues impacting Botswana. Speaking during the official launch of the Month of Prayer in Serowe on Tuesday, Ms Dziidzo Leshiba, a nurse at Serowe district council said September was a special month for all Batswana to pray for HIV\/AIDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208238,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6581,4345,25693,7373,257,11116,8225,3577,254],"class_list":["post-208237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-church","tag-fight","tag-ills","tag-major","tag-news","tag-plays","tag-role","tag-social","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\/208237","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=208237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}