{"id":8985,"date":"2013-07-09T05:51:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T05:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uk-town-declares-rwand-friendship-day\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T05:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T05:51:58","slug":"uk-town-declares-rwand-friendship-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uk-town-declares-rwand-friendship-day\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Town Declares Rwanda Friendship Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Little Known to most Rwandans, residents of a UK town Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk have declared July 7 Rwanda Friendship Day. }} <\/p>\n<p>Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. <\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda Friendship Day was declared by the community\u2019s leadership during Mass at at St Edmundsbury Cathedral also attended by the area mayor, Councillor Terry Buckle and Rwanda&#8217;s High Commissioner to the UK, Williams Nkurunziza attended.<\/p>\n<p>Also about 200 residents including other dignitaries and members of the Rwandan community were in attendence.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Buckle and Amb. Nkurunziza light a candle of friendship to mark July 7 as \u2018Rwanda Friendship Day,\u2019 the same day a year ago that the Rwandan Olympic team first arrived in Bury St Edmunds for their Pre-Games Training Camp. <\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor, the dedication of this day is intended to ensure that the community builds \u2018a lasting legacy of friendship\u2019 from their first interaction with the Rwandan athletics\u2019 team.<\/p>\n<p>Amb. Nkurunziza noted, &#8220;Our athletes came here to compete in sports, but won a special place in your hearts. By declaring July 7 the Rwanda Friendship Day, the people of St Edmunds demonstrate a deep desire to build an enduring friendship between your community and our country. We share this desire and commend you for taking the first, firm step in this journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3211 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eer-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Newtimes photo}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Little Known to most Rwandans, residents of a UK town Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk have declared July 7 Rwanda Friendship Day. }} Bury is the seat of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The Rwanda Friendship Day was declared by the community\u2019s leadership during Mass at at St Edmundsbury Cathedral also attended by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-8985","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\/8985","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=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}