{"id":79,"date":"2011-12-14T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T13:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/?p=79"},"modified":"2011-12-14T06:59:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T13:59:26","slug":"senior-missionary-couples-leave-the-dr-congo-kinshasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/senior-missionary-couples-leave-the-dr-congo-kinshasa-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior missionary couples leave the DR Congo Kinshasa Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Due to political instability caused by the recent presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the LDS Church has withdrawn its non-African senior missionary couples serving in the DR Congo in the DR Congo Kinshasa Mission and is currently housing them in Johannesburg, South Africa.\u00a0 Senior missionary couples serving in nearby Cameroon and the Republic of Congo &#8211; two nations also part of the DR Congo Kinshasa Mission &#8211; appear unaffected.\u00a0 It is unclear whether the mission president has also withdrawn from the country or whether senior missionary couples were withdrawn from the DR Congo Lubumbashi Mission.\u00a0 Almost the entire full-time missionary force is staffed by native Congolese members and it is unclear whether these missionaries are under lock down or continue to proselyte in the Kinshasa area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/senior-missionary-couples-temporarily.html\">LDS Church Growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to political instability caused by the recent presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the LDS Church has withdrawn its non-African senior missionary couples serving in the DR Congo in the DR Congo Kinshasa Mission and is currently housing them in Johannesburg, South Africa.\u00a0 Senior missionary couples serving in nearby Cameroon and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/senior-missionary-couples-leave-the-dr-congo-kinshasa-mission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Senior missionary couples leave the DR Congo Kinshasa Mission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missions","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31AuT-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}