{"id":4073,"date":"2014-03-05T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2014-03-05T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T11:42:47","slug":"cardinal-turkson-denounces-ugandas-anti-gay-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Turkson denounces Uganda&#8217;s anti-gay law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4075\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4075\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peter-Cardinal-Appiah-Turkson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4075\" alt=\"Vatican cardinal, Peter Turkson\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peter-Cardinal-Appiah-Turkson-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peter-Cardinal-Appiah-Turkson-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Peter-Cardinal-Appiah-Turkson.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vatican cardinal, Peter Turkson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vatican cardinal, Peter Turkson, has criticized Uganda&#8217;s anti-gay law and called for the repeal of its severe penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Peter Turkson, who is president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said Tuesday that &#8220;homosexuals are not criminals&#8221; and shouldn&#8217;t be sentenced for up to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters in Bratislava where he attended a conference on the Catholic Church and human rights, Turkson said the Vatican also calls on the international community to keep providing aid.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda has been hit with substantial aid cuts in reaction to the law.<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank has postponed a $90 million loan for Uganda&#8217;s health systems.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has made a point of reaching out to gays, famously saying: &#8220;Who am I to judge?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Huffingtonpost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican cardinal, Peter Turkson, has criticized Uganda&#8217;s anti-gay law and called for the repeal of its severe penalties. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who is president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said Tuesday that &#8220;homosexuals are not criminals&#8221; and shouldn&#8217;t be sentenced for up to life in prison. Speaking to reporters in Bratislava where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4075,"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":[2],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}