{"id":236914,"date":"2026-06-20T17:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-churches-urged-to-help-fight-moral-decay-and-social-ills\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:57:58","slug":"namibia-churches-urged-to-help-fight-moral-decay-and-social-ills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-churches-urged-to-help-fight-moral-decay-and-social-ills\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Churches Urged to Help Fight Moral Decay and Social Ills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Vice president Lucia Witbooi has called on churches and religious institutions to strengthen their partnership with the government in addressing moral decay, corruption, substance abuse and gender-based violence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN) in Windhoek on Wednesday, Witbooi said faith-based organisations have a critical role to play in restoring hope and promoting sound values in society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Addressing delegates under the theme &#8216;Strengthening&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606180615.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice president Lucia Witbooi has called on churches and religious institutions to strengthen their partnership with the government in addressing moral decay, corruption, substance abuse and gender-based violence. Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Council of Churches in Namibia (CCN) in Windhoek on Wednesday, Witbooi said faith-based organisations have a critical role to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236915,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,9516,9907,4345,25693,12631,4706,724,257,3577,254,6206],"class_list":["post-236914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-churches","tag-decay","tag-fight","tag-ills","tag-moral","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged"],"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\/236914","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=236914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}