{"id":4275,"date":"2015-07-20T08:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T08:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/_test_&#038;web\/?p=4275"},"modified":"2017-07-16T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T14:15:29","slug":"president-kagame-receives-the-episcopal-conference-of-rwanda-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=4275","title":{"rendered":"President\u00a0Kagame receives the Episcopal Conference of Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.presidency.gov.rw\/owa\/UrlBlockedError.aspx\">19 July 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame over the weekend received a delegation of the Episcopal Conference of Rwanda led by the Conference&#8217;s\u00a0chairman Bishop Smaradge Mbonyintege.\u00a0 The meeting discussed how to strengthen collaboration between the Church and Government, in order to improve the wellbeing of\u00a0Rwandans. The President commended the Catholic Church for the long standing relationship\u00a0and pledged continued government support.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church, which has invested in health and education, runs 131 schools, 105 health centres and nine hospitals across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1980, the conference is the official assembly of all Catholic Bishops in Rwanda and is comprised of nine dioceses; Kigali, Kabgayi, Butare, Gikongoro, Cyangugu, Nyundo, Byumba, Ruhengeri and Kibungo.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below to view photos of the meeting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mail.presidency.gov.rw\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=0b1bd628ff2046059b6a8bf47fbd0242&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.flickr.com%2fphotos%2fpaulkagame%2fsets%2f72157655973586812\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulkagame\/sets\/72157655973586812<\/a><\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali\u00a019 July 2015 President Kagame over the weekend received a delegation of the Episcopal Conference of Rwanda led by the Conference&#8217;s\u00a0chairman Bishop Smaradge Mbonyintege.\u00a0 The meeting discussed how to strengthen collaboration between the Church and Government, in order to improve the wellbeing of\u00a0Rwandans. The President commended the Catholic Church for the long standing relationship\u00a0and pledged continued government support. The Catholic Church, which has invested in health and education, runs 131 schools, 105 health centres and nine hospitals across the country.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7842,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4275\/revisions\/7842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}