{"id":7297,"date":"2013-04-20T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T08:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/catholic-priest-kalinijabo-to-marry-in-april\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T10:03:37","slug":"catholic-priest-kalinijabo-to-marry-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/catholic-priest-kalinijabo-to-marry-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Priest Kalinijabo to Marry in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{A former catholic Priest Fr. Lambert Kalinijabo has announced April as date for his marriage which has caused mixed feelings among the conservative members of the Roman catholic faith.}}<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda has a larger Catholic population who find the decision by Fr. Kalinijabo to seek marriage as unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Kalinijabo is reported to have withdrawn from active duty in the Catholic church and is thus embarking on a new life without adhering to conservative principles of the Roman catholic church that require such persons to remain celibate.<\/p>\n<p>Monsignor Philipo Rukamba of Butare Diocese confirmed the news about Fr. Kalinijabo&#8217;s marriage preparations saying, &#8220;its true he is going to marry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Msgr. Rukamba also explained that although Fr. Kalinijabo requested to retire from fatherhood, it takes alot of time to have such permision granted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the resignation letter has to be sent to Vatican for the Pope to consider. But Fr. kalinijabo has not waited for the Popes Decision on his resignation request&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Roman Catholic rules, Fr. kalinijabo&#8217;s decision to marry contravenes the Church rules that govern the priests meant to remain celibate forlife.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. kalinijabo&#8217;s contravention would attract Excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Kalinijabo has reportedly switched to the Anglican Faith (Protestant). He was previously Headteacher at Koleji Kristu Umwami in Nyanza district. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2490 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ffre.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Fr. kalinijabo}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{A former catholic Priest Fr. Lambert Kalinijabo has announced April as date for his marriage which has caused mixed feelings among the conservative members of the Roman catholic faith.}} Rwanda has a larger Catholic population who find the decision by Fr. Kalinijabo to seek marriage as unusual. Fr. Kalinijabo is reported to have withdrawn from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}