{"id":292136,"date":"2017-02-08T07:57:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=292136"},"modified":"2017-02-08T07:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:57:52","slug":"madonna-granted-permission-to-adopt-two-children-from-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=292136","title":{"rendered":"Madonna granted permission to adopt two children from Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna has been granted permission to adopt two more children from Malawi, a court spokesperson has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s High Court made the ruling today.<\/p>\n<p>The singer already has two children from the African country &#8211; David, adopted in 2006, and Mercy, adopted in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Malawian judiciary spokesman Mlenga Mvula said the singer was inside the court in Lilongwe when the ruling was given.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In fact, at the time we were granting her the permission she was in the courtroom with her lawyers,&#8221; Mr Mvula said.<\/p>\n<p>But less than two weeks ago Madonna denied reports she&#8217;d applied to adopt any more children, during a charity visit to Malawi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_container \">\n<figure style=\"width: 976px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/165D1\/production\/_94010619_gettyimages-165267977.jpg\" alt=\"Madonna with her children (L to R) David Banda, Lourdes, Mercy James, and Rocco on a charity visit to Malawi\" width=\"976\" height=\"660\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madonna with her children (L to R) David Banda, Lourdes, Mercy James, and Rocco on a charity visit to Malawi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On 25 January, a Malawian government spokesperson told news outlets the 58-year-old singer had appeared in court and had &#8220;filed an application expressing interest&#8221; to adopt two children.<\/p>\n<p>But Madonna said she was only there for charity purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rumours of an adoption process are untrue,&#8221; she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am in Malawi to check on the children&#8217;s hospital in Blantyre and my other work with Raising Malawi and then heading home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_container \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/E4FD\/production\/_94012685_gettyimages-459753902.jpg\" alt=\"Madonna in Malawi\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Madonna founded the children&#8217;s charity Raising Malawi in 2006, the same year she adopted David.<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, she took David and Mercy to visit the orphanages where they lived before being adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The star has two other children &#8211; Lourdes and Rocco &#8211; from previous relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna has been granted permission to adopt two more children from Malawi, a court spokesperson has announced. The country&#8217;s High Court made the ruling today. The singer already has two children from the African country &#8211; David, adopted in 2006, and Mercy, adopted in 2009. Malawian judiciary spokesman Mlenga Mvula said the singer was inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[3838,2835,795],"class_list":["post-292136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-adoption","tag-madonna","tag-malawi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}