{"id":210671,"date":"2025-10-21T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-central-conference-holds-landmark-youth-and-young-adults-gathering-in-freetown\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:38:23","slug":"west-africa-central-conference-holds-landmark-youth-and-young-adults-gathering-in-freetown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-central-conference-holds-landmark-youth-and-young-adults-gathering-in-freetown\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa Central Conference Holds Landmark Youth and Young Adults Gathering in Freetown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>Published:<\/em> October 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\"><strong>Grafton, Sierra Leone &#8211;<\/strong> Eight years after its last gathering in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ,Young and Youth representatives from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria, and Cameroon along with Bishops from their respective conferences have gathered and participated in the landmark Youth and Young Adults gathering organized by the West Africa Central Conference Youth &amp;Young Adult Network of The United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The West Africa Central Conference of The United&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510210168.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: October 21, 2025 Grafton, Sierra Leone &#8211; Eight years after its last gathering in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ,Young and Youth representatives from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria, and Cameroon along with Bishops from their respective conferences have gathered and participated in the landmark Youth and Young Adults gathering organized by the West Africa Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210672,"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":[1109],"tags":[38091,258,256,5934,5739,1359,15487,6275,12583,257,1135,254,4375,7720,6276],"class_list":["post-210671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-adults","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-conference","tag-freetown","tag-gathering","tag-holds","tag-landmark","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west","tag-young","tag-youth"],"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\/210671","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=210671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}