{"id":127967,"date":"2019-06-19T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127967"},"modified":"2019-06-19T10:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:45:03","slug":"what-world-bishops-said-about-re-election-of-rev-ayokunle-as-can-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127967","title":{"rendered":"What World Bishops said about re-election of Rev. Ayokunle as CAN President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Call-for-Dasuki-El-Zakzakky\u2019s-release-another-betrayal-of-Jesus-Christ-\u2013-Christians-fires-back-at-CAN-President.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The World Bishops\u2019 Council, WBC, Africa has urged the National President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Supo Ayokunle, to work with all stakeholders in securing all Christians in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This is following Ayokunle\u2019s reelection as the CAN President on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the WBC Directorate of Information and signed by its Africa spokesman, Bishop Seun Adeoye, on behalf of the Council\u2019s Africa Nuncio, Bishop Godspower Akandu.<\/p>\n<p>WBC counseled Ayokunle to ensure that there is peace, unity and harmony among the five blocks that formed CAN.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added, \u201cBy securing your reelection, it shows that your leadership fared well during your first term in spite of several controversies ranging from allegations of financial impropriety, bickering with Christian elders and politicization of CAN among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge you to put all these negative issues behind you, focus your attention on how to expand and defend the Christian community in Nigeria, put up good programmes that will uplift the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and above all settle all matters with individuals and groups who differed from your views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is certain that these are trying periods for Christians in Nigeria but be assured of the support of WBC, World Federation of Churches (WFC) and World Clergies Congress (WCC) at all time.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ The World Bishops\u2019 Council, WBC, Africa has urged the National President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Rev. Supo Ayokunle, to work with all stakeholders in securing all Christians in the country. This is following Ayokunle\u2019s reelection as the CAN President on Tuesday. This was contained in a statement issued on Tuesday by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2677],"tags":[11659,299],"class_list":["post-127967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-ayokunle","tag-can"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}