{"id":397315,"date":"2018-02-01T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397315"},"modified":"2018-02-01T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:27:43","slug":"rihanna-not-welcome-senegal-religious-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=397315","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna &#8216;not welcome in Senegal&#8217;  &#8211; Religious groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop star Rihanna is due to appear at a high-level summit in Senegal tomorrow but a religious association have declared her persona non grata, reports Jeune Afrique (in French).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No to Freemasonry and Homosexuality&#8221;, an association of around 30 religious groups in Senegal, accuse the singer of using masonic symbolism and being a member of the so-called Illuminati, a conspiracy myth which suggests that a shadowy group of global elites are working to establish a New World Order.<\/p>\n<p>Such claims about Rihanna&#8217;s beliefs have been roundly dismissed as outlandish by her collaborators in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Rihanna will be visiting the West African nation in her role as an ambassador for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).<\/p>\n<p>The organisation aims to help fund the teaching of millions of children and young people in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p>Jeune Afrique quotes Senegal&#8217;s interior minister as saying he will ensure the safety of all conference attendees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop star Rihanna is due to appear at a high-level summit in Senegal tomorrow but a religious association have declared her persona non grata, reports Jeune Afrique (in French). &#8220;No to Freemasonry and Homosexuality&#8221;, an association of around 30 religious groups in Senegal, accuse the singer of using masonic symbolism and being a member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":397318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[8586,2526],"class_list":["post-397315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-rihanna","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397315","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}