{"id":26182,"date":"2014-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/tanzania-509\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:40","slug":"tanzania-509","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/tanzania-509\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The government has been slow to respond to rising religious violence in Tanzania, causing the gradual emergence of a culture of impunity where the perpetrators increasingly believe they can get away with further attacks. In Zanzibar, an extreme interpretation of Islam takes precedence over the law. Two church leaders were murdered earlier this year, and Christian leaders regularly receive death threats. Last year two leaders were also murdered in mob attacks on the mainland.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Throughout this week please:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Ask God to comfort the families of the murdered church leaders;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for divine protection for the Christian minority in Zanzibar, that no weapon forged against them would prevail;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that during next year&#8217;s elections, God would raise up leaders with integrity who would rule with justice and equity;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for the current government to take bold action against inciters and perpetrators of violence;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the Government of Tanzania would have the courage to enforce the law;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that terror networks trying to establish themselves in Tanzania and neighbouring Kenya would not succeed;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>As a new constitution is being drafted, pray that religious freedom provisions would be maintained and respected, including the right to change religion.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has been slow to respond to rising religious violence in Tanzania, causing the gradual emergence of a culture of impunity where the perpetrators increasingly believe they can get away with further attacks.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[],"class_list":["post-26182","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40852,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26182\/revisions\/40852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}