{"id":37060,"date":"2018-03-06T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T10:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/six-pastors-held-over-subversion\/"},"modified":"2018-03-08T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T09:32:10","slug":"six-pastors-held-over-subversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/six-pastors-held-over-subversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Six pastors held over subversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrested are; Apostle Charles Rwandamura, Reverend Pastor Fred Nyamurangwa, Bishop Innocent Rugagi, Rev Emmanuel Ntambara, Pastor James Dura and Pastor Emmanuel Kalisa Shyaka.<\/p>\n<p>Police statement says that following the closure of substandard churches, some church heads have formed a group with the aim of impeding the exercise. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the closure of substandard churches and noticing that some heads of churches have formed a group and started unlawful meetings targeting to hinder the process,  Police have launched investigations and identified those who spearhead the inciting of others which is a crime,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects will be charged with organizing unlawful meetings and involvement in acts of subversion. <\/p>\n<p>While closing the National Leaders Retreat last week, President Paul Kagame described the increase in number of churches in the country as \u2018disorder\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>He said that having a number of churches bigger than that of water boreholes and industries which would have had good impact to population is disorder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the other productive thing that we have amounting 700 in Kigali? Is it industries? But, churches which you also decided to close down, this implies that it is disorder,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyway, what do these 700 churches do? Do they offer water to population, are they shops, are they industries? what\u2019s their role?\u201d Kagame questioned.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24288 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pastor-james-dura-a074b.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor James Dura \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24287 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bishop-rwandamura-f3a4b.jpg\" alt=\"Apostle Charles  Rwandamura\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24286 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton93609-3cab2.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop Innocent Rugagi\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24289 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ntambara-4-39d97.jpg\" alt=\"Rev Emmanuel Ntambara\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24290 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fred_nyamurangwa-1cfe3.jpg\" alt=\"Reverend Pastor Fred Nyamurangwa\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have said that they have in their custody six pastors who are suspected of having had plans to tamper with the ongoing exercise of clamping down on churches that do not meet structural standards across the country.<\/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":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/37060","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=37060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}