{"id":2325,"date":"2011-05-30T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2011-05-30T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:33:37","slug":"malawi-catholics-on-pilgrimage-to-uganda-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/30\/malawi-catholics-on-pilgrimage-to-uganda-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Catholics on pilgrimage to Uganda, Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2326\" title=\"black_catholic_chicago_logo_200x200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/black_catholic_chicago_logo_200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>APA Lilongwe (Malawi)  Malawi Catholics  on Sunday began a pilgrimage  at the Namugongo Shrine for 3rd June  Ugandan Martyrs Day before  proceeding for another five-day pilgrimage to  Jerusalem, Israel in  June, APA learns here.<\/p>\n<p>The Ugandan Martyrs were Christian converts killed by the Buganda king Mwanga II for their faith, between 1885 and 1887.<\/p>\n<p>The  leader of the pilgrimage, Archbishop Tarcisius Ziyaye, on Sunday  bade  farewell to the worshippers who celebrated a mass at Limbe  Cathedral in  the commercial city of Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After having our prayers in Uganda we shall proceed to Jerusalem where we shall meet other groups.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival the pilgrims will tour holy places including  the visit to the Basilica of Annunciation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis  is the largest church in the Holy Land and it is the church where  the  Virgin Mary was told of her conception by Angel Gabriel,&#8221; the   Archbishop added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Archbishop Tarcisius Ziyaye, the  pilgrims will also visit  Mary\u2019s well in Nazareth which is the oldest  water wells in Nazareth and  it is believed to be the well that the  Virgin Mary used to bring water  to her house.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrims will also  pray at the Church of Cana where Jesus Christ had his  first miracle by  transforming water into wine at a marriage, he said.<\/p>\n<p>On the last  day of their pilgrimage, the religious leader explained,   pilgrims will  visit the old city of Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall, the  Dome of the  Rock, Al Agsa Mosque, St. Anne\u2019s Church, Bethesda Pool and  they will  have a walk on the street which Jesus walked while carrying  his cross  to Calvary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APA Lilongwe (Malawi) Malawi Catholics on Sunday began a pilgrimage at the Namugongo Shrine for 3rd June Ugandan Martyrs Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[660,281,158],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-religion-2","tag-catholics","tag-church","tag-uganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}