{"id":209060,"date":"2025-10-06T07:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-where-is-my-praise-ruto-demands-recognition-for-sh10m-donation-that-split-pag-leadership\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:45:11","slug":"kenya-where-is-my-praise-ruto-demands-recognition-for-sh10m-donation-that-split-pag-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-where-is-my-praise-ruto-demands-recognition-for-sh10m-donation-that-split-pag-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;Where Is My Praise?&#8217; &#8211; Ruto Demands Recognition for Sh10m Donation That Split PAG Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has reignited controversy over political donations to the church after publicly demanding recognition from the Pentecostal Assemblies of God (PAG) for a Sh10 million contribution that previously split the denomination&#8217;s leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking during the PAG Church&#8217;s centenary celebrations in Nyang&#8217;ori, Vihiga County, Ruto accused the church of failing to acknowledge his past support &#8212; a move he said could affect his willingness to continue funding religious&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060068.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 reignited controversy over political donations to the church after publicly demanding recognition from the Pentecostal Assemblies of God (PAG) for a Sh10 million contribution that previously split the denomination&#8217;s leadership. Speaking during the PAG Church&#8217;s centenary celebrations in Nyang&#8217;ori, Vihiga County, Ruto accused the church of failing to acknowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209061,"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":[258,256,6979,12532,4688,430,8771,257,52495,6338,16576,11238,16298,254,7817],"class_list":["post-209060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demands","tag-donation","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leadership","tag-news","tag-pag","tag-praise","tag-recognition","tag-ruto","tag-sh10m","tag-south-africa-today","tag-split"],"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\/209060","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=209060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}