{"id":87713,"date":"2015-04-23T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/87713\/salvation-army-is-willing-and-ready-to-help\/"},"modified":"2015-04-23T08:51:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T06:51:31","slug":"salvation-army-is-willing-and-ready-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/23\/salvation-army-is-willing-and-ready-to-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation Army is willing and ready to help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Salvation Army has condemned the wave of attacks on foreigners currently happening in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The PR secretary of The Salvation Army Southern Africa territory, Maj Carin Holmes, said: \u201cWe are appalled and deeply saddened and disappointed at the current wave of xenophobia in the country against our fellow Africans.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEvery act of brutality is in direct contradiction of the teachings of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have only recently celebrated the crucifixion of Jesus and his rising from the dead at Easter time.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHow can South Africans, the majority of whom profess they follow the Christian faith, justify these violent actions at any time, let alone so soon after Easter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Salvation Army, based in Durban, has become involved by providing assistance in the refugee camps that have been set up there.<\/p>\n<p>The group is willing and ready to help if called on to help in other cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/86658\/mayor-calls-for-calm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor calls for calm and tolerance in communities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/87561\/we-are-not-a-xenophobic-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deputy Minister of energy visits victims of xenophobia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/86598\/situation-tense-in-germistons-informal-settlements\/\" target=\"_blank\">Situation tense in Germiston\u2019s informal settlements.<\/a><\/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='ec6b4de349ffc948d877850196bea02f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvation Army condemns xenophobic attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":86805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,998,7217,7162],"class_list":["post-87713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-the-salvation-army","tag-xenophobia"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS","The Salvation Army","xenophobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87713","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=87713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}