{"id":278923,"date":"2019-06-14T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMigAFodHRwczovL3JlbGlnaW9ubmV3cy5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xNC9ldGhpb3BpYS10b3VyLWZvci1nYXktYW5kLWxlc2JpYW4tdHJhdmVsZXJzLWluLWplb3BhcmR5LWFtaWQtYmFja2xhc2gtZnJvbS1yZWxpZ2lvdXMtZ3JvdXBzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:33","slug":"religion-news-service-said-faith-group-backlash-endangered-a-planned-lgbtq-tour-of-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278923","title":{"rendered":"Religion News Service said faith-group backlash endangered a planned LGBTQ tour of Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 14 June 2019 Religion News Service reported from Chicago that a planned Ethiopia tour for gay and lesbian travelers, which organiser Dan Ware hoped would visit famed churches and meet religious leaders, faced a growing backlash from faith groups.<\/p>\n\"Religion\n

The story framed the dispute as a clash between diaspora tourism marketing and conservative religious opposition inside and around Ethiopia\u2019s Christian communities.<\/p>\n

Kept as society and religion archive, the RNS report dates the mid-2019 controversy over an LGBTQ Ethiopia tour package.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> Religion News Service<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethiopia tour for gay, lesbian travelers in jeopardy amid backlash from faith groups  Religion News ServiceCHICAGO (RNS) \u2014 Dan Ware hoped to visit Ethiopia this fall with a group of fellow travelers, touring the country’s famed churches and m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ayL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755223,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278923\/revisions\/755223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}