{"id":12045,"date":"2023-10-23T12:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T12:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2023-10-24T08:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T08:01:28","slug":"catholic-priest-weds-gets-ordained-on-the-same-day-in-githunguri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=12045","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Priest Weds, Gets Ordained On The Same Day In Githunguri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-17-1024x604.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-17-1024x604.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-17-980x578.png 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-17-480x283.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents of Ikinu, Githunguri, and Kiambu County were stunned on Sunday by a rare wedding ceremony in which a Catholic priest exchanged marriage vows with his lover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reverend Father Edwin Gathang&#8217;i Waiguru married Margaret Wanjira Githui after defecting to the Catholic Charismatic church, a Roman Catholic splinter group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was also ordained as a Roman Catholic priest on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waiguru told journalists that his decision to marry was a call from God, a dream he has been harbouring for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I thank my wife for accepting to come and be also used by God so that we can show the world that it&#8217;s possible for somebody to serve God and have a family because God did not make a mistake when he created a man and a woman and he said it is not good for a man to be alone,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Ikinu, Githunguri, and Kiambu County were stunned on Sunday by a rare wedding ceremony in which a Catholic priest exchanged marriage vows with his lover. Reverend Father Edwin Gathang&#8217;i Waiguru married Margaret Wanjira Githui after defecting to the Catholic Charismatic church, a Roman Catholic splinter group. He was also ordained as a Roman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12048,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions\/12048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}