{"id":264154,"date":"2017-07-17T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=264154"},"modified":"2020-11-22T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T15:02:04","slug":"tanzania-worshippers-swept-away-in-river-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/tanzania-worshippers-swept-away-in-river-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania worshippers swept away in river baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The morning laugh\u2026 their imaginary god couldn\u2019t protect them from drowning\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tanzanian police have detained a pastor after two worshippers drowned while being baptised in a river near Rombo in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The two victims were overwhelmed by the current of the River Ungwasi, a police spokesman has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how the pastor and the other worshippers involved managed to survive, the BBC&#8217;s Odeo Sirari says.<\/p>\n<p>They are members of a local church, Shalom, which is part of the charismatic Christian movement.<\/p>\n<p>Baptism in a river rather than in church is seen as a way of re-enacting the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is a symbol of washing away sin and the start of a new life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-40635042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-40635042<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The morning laugh\u2026 their imaginary god couldn\u2019t protect them from drowning\u2026 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":284687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}