{"id":34765,"date":"2017-05-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/churches-religious-denominations-excluded-from\/"},"modified":"2017-05-24T17:56:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T17:56:49","slug":"churches-religious-denominations-excluded-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/churches-religious-denominations-excluded-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches, religious denominations to form own association in Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Chairperson of Civil Society Organizations, Munyamariza Edouard has unveiled that churches and religious denominations  are set to form own association under the auspice of Civil Society in Rwanda a move meant to enhance harmony in the body.}<\/p>\n<p>He revealed this during a general assembly of Civil Society organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Munyamariza explained the move is meant to tackle misunderstandings as church doctrines are sometimes against issues that civil society advocate for. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cBecause religious denominations execute similar functions, the reform is meant to enhance their smooth collaboration where they can meet other civil society members in a broader organization. In fact, people may work together but without consensus. Religious denominations and non-governmental organizations disagree in some cases. When you put together a person supporting a particular idea with someone in disagreement, it becomes complicated to execute the same task. Some members may accept legalization of abortion but others can refute saying it is a scandal, against Rwanda\u2019s culture. Apart from that, the structure of religious denominations is different from non-governmental organizations,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The executive secretary of Peace and Justice Commission in Catholic Church, father Gasana Vincent said separating them won\u2019t affect their performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to respect RGB\u2019s decision. We will be accomplishing tasks of civil society under the body in which we will be associated,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Father Gasana stressed that civil society should put emphasis on enhancing citizens\u2019 freedom of expression to problems affecting them.  <\/p>\n<p>A total of 449 non-governmental organizations are registered in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20278 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umunyamabanga_wa_komisiyo_y_ubutabera_n_amahoro_muri_kiliziya_gatolika_padiri_gasana_vincent_1_-144c5.jpg\" alt=\"The executive secretary of Peace and Justice Commission in Catholic Church, father Gasana Vincent\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Chairperson of Civil Society Organizations, Munyamariza Edouard has unveiled that churches and religious denominations are set to form own association under the auspice of Civil Society in Rwanda a move meant to enhance harmony in the body.} He revealed this during a general assembly of Civil Society organizations. Munyamariza explained the move is meant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34765"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34765"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}