{"id":12747,"date":"2020-02-02T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12747"},"modified":"2020-02-02T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T09:19:06","slug":"stampede-at-a-church-service-in-tanzania-kills-at-least-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12747","title":{"rendered":"Stampede at a Church Service in Tanzania Kills At least 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people have been killed and over a dozen injured in a stampede during a church service at a stadium in northern Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people packed a stadium on Saturday evening in Moshi town near the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and stomped each other as they rushed to get anointed with \u201cblessed oil\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Boniface Mwamposa has been drawing huge crowds by promising prosperity and cure for disease to worshippers who walk on what he describes as \u201cblessed oil\u201d during his church services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities fear the death toll could rise due to the size of the crowd and dark conditions when the stampede occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania has seen a rise in the number of \u201cprosperity gospel\u201d pastors in recent years, who promise to lift people out of poverty and perform what they call miracle cures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people in the nation of 55 million flock to Pentecostal churches, whose main source of income is \u201ctithe\u201d, the 10% or so of income that worshippers are asked to contribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people have been killed and over a dozen injured in a stampede during a church service at a stadium in northern Tanzania. &nbsp; Hundreds of people packed a stadium on Saturday evening in Moshi town near the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and stomped each other as they rushed to get anointed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12749,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions\/12749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}