{"id":71030,"date":"2014-10-18T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/71030\/ekurhuleni-extends-church-registration-period\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:40:21","slug":"ekurhuleni-extends-church-registration-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/18\/ekurhuleni-extends-church-registration-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekurhuleni extends church registration period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the overwhelming requests from the religious community, the metro has extended the deadline for the submission of applications to be placed on the municipality&#8217;s database of churches.<\/p>\n<p>The October 10 due date was extended to November 10, after the metro received an overwhelming response from churches that were interested in registering.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The registrations will serve as part of an accreditation process to determine the eligibility of churches to access land and municipal facilities.<\/p>\n<p>This stems from discussions which took place at the Religious Summit, held in Germiston, in December, last year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Churches that are interested are encouraged to collect and submit accreditation forms from their nearest Customer Care Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Accreditation will provide the metro with an indication that a particular religious formation meets the basic criteria for bidding for the use of council land or facilities, by demonstrating that they are a credible institution.<\/p>\n<p>One of the benefits of accreditation is being eligible to be prioritised for the use of municipal facilities as a place of worship.<\/p>\n<p>Religious leaders can obtain and also submit application forms for accreditation at their nearest Customer Care Area (CCA) offices.<\/p>\n<p>The forms will be collected from the CCA by the health and social development department and feedback will be given to the applicants after the database has been formed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='7ed26e5b74f5591924bd2c32297c5c95'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churches have more time to register with the metro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":71112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[3753,1003,979,969,2734,1002,1004,2077],"class_list":["post-71030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-churches","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro","tag-municipality","tag-register"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["churches","Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","metro","municipality","register"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}