{"id":42366,"date":"2020-12-05T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T11:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/more-space-opens-for-worship-houses-and-rites\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:20:53","slug":"more-space-opens-for-worship-houses-and-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/more-space-opens-for-worship-houses-and-rites\/","title":{"rendered":"More space opens for worship houses and rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Places of worship are required to accommodate 50% of their capacity and respect all COVID-19 control measures including social distancing, washing hands, and wearing of face mask.  <\/p>\n<p>Under the newly issued guidelines, the Ministry of Local Government has revealed that \u2018faith-based organizations can organize religious gatherings for more two days of choice per week and inform local leaders from the sector in which a church is located\u2019.   <\/p>\n<p>The two days will be additional to existing proclaimed days of worship especially, Friday for Muslims; Saturday for Adventists and Sunday for other churches.  <\/p>\n<p>Burial and wedding ceremonies will also continue to be observed anytime respecting COVID-19 guidelines.  <\/p>\n<p>The guidelines also indicate that religious gatherings for people in advanced ages from 65 and above should be exclusively held except those leading church services.  <\/p>\n<p>Children from six and above have been also allowed to go to pray together with their siblings or parents. <\/p>\n<p>Baptism and other sacraments will be ordained respecting COVID-19 health guidelines.  <\/p>\n<p>Burial ceremonies should not exceed 75 persons.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37319 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mikayire.jpg\" alt=\"Saint Michel is among churches allowed to reopen.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC) has revised directives allowing religious organizations to organize church services three times per week and ordaining all sacraments in church. } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/42366","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42366"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42366"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}