{"id":1196,"date":"2017-02-13T09:37:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T09:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T09:37:21","slug":"pastor-preaches-against-fgm-despite-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/pastor-preaches-against-fgm-despite-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor preaches against FGM, despite threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KENYA<\/p>\n<p>A PASTOR in Kenya is making a stand against female genital mutilation (FGM) to protect his daughters from an \u201cinjustice that would rob them\u201d of their human rights, education, and well-being, an anti-FGM campaigner in the country, Susan Krop, has reported.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor, Emmanuel Longelech, and his three daughters, live in West Pokot, a region of Kenya where an estimated 72 per cent of girls undergo FGM \u2014 also known as female circumcision. There are no known health benefits of the procedure, which can cause severe long-term physical and mental damage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENYA A PASTOR in Kenya is making a stand against female genital mutilation (FGM) to protect his daughters from an \u201cinjustice that would rob them\u201d of their human rights, education, and well-being, an anti-FGM campaigner in the country, Susan Krop, has reported. The pastor, Emmanuel Longelech, and his three daughters, live in West Pokot, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}