{"id":229766,"date":"2026-04-07T14:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-middle-east-crisis-choose-dialogue-over-violence-pres-mahama-appeals-at-easter-service\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:39:41","slug":"ghana-middle-east-crisis-choose-dialogue-over-violence-pres-mahama-appeals-at-easter-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-middle-east-crisis-choose-dialogue-over-violence-pres-mahama-appeals-at-easter-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Middle East Crisis &#8211; Choose Dialogue Over Violence &#8211; Pres. Mahama Appeals At Easter Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">President John Dramani Mahama has issued a strong call for peace across the world, urging nations to choose dialogue over violence as Christians mark Easter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">He expressed deep concern over the escalating conflict in the Middle East, describing it as a &#8220;painful irony&#8221; that violence persists in the very land where Jesus Christ preached peace and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Speaking at a Good Friday service organised by the Lighthouse Chapel International (LCI) at Independence Square, the President appealed to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070427.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has issued a strong call for peace across the world, urging nations to choose dialogue over violence as Christians mark Easter. He expressed deep concern over the escalating conflict in the Middle East, describing it as a &#8220;painful irony&#8221; that violence persists in the very land where Jesus Christ preached peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229767,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4344,17602,3723,6688,6719,7396,4508,4509,7780,16940,257,6911,5188,254,2148],"class_list":["post-229766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeals","tag-choose","tag-crisis","tag-dialogue","tag-east","tag-easter","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-middle","tag-news","tag-pres","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence"],"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\/229766","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=229766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}