{"id":3698,"date":"2014-07-06T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T09:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2014-07-06T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T09:25:56","slug":"killing-is-now-anodyne-act-in-central-african-republic-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/killing-is-now-anodyne-act-in-central-african-republic-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing is now \u2018anodyne act\u2019 in Central African Republic: Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic have criticised their country\u2019s transitional government for failing to \u201crevive hopes\u201d and end months of conflict between Islamist and Christian forces despite international backing.<\/p>\n<p>The bishops said that the January election of President Catherine Samba-Panza by members of the National Transition Council had been intended to \u201cturn a new page in the country\u2019s dismal recent history\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the bishops charged, the government had \u201cshown laxity\u201d in tackling human rights violations and holding back rival armed groups despite support provided by thousands of peacekeepers backed by the United Nations and European Union&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2014\/07\/04\/killing-has-become-anodyne-act-in-central-african-republic-say-bishops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Chad\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/chad\/\">Chad<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic bishops in the Central African Republic have criticised their country\u2019s transitional government for failing to \u201crevive hopes\u201d and end months of conflict between Islamist and Christian forces despite international backing. The bishops said that the January election of President Catherine Samba-Panza by members of the National Transition Council had been intended to \u201cturn a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[258,256,2249,4696,4699,778,464,522,2250,357,257,1105,254,309],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catholic-bishops","tag-central-africa","tag-chad","tag-chad-news","tag-christian","tag-european-union","tag-human-rights-violations","tag-islamist","tag-news","tag-peacekeepers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}