{"id":18948,"date":"2019-02-05T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=18948"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:08:28","slug":"zimbabwe-pastor-convicted-over-hiv-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/05\/zimbabwe-pastor-convicted-over-hiv-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe pastor convicted over &#8216;HIV cure&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><span class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BBTcfZc.img?h=450&amp;w=799&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f\" alt=\"Walter Magaya speaks to a congregation whose faces are blurred: Walter Magaya is a flashy pastor with a huge following\" \/><\/span><span class=\"caption truncate\"><span class=\"attribution\">\u00a9 Walter Magaya\/Facebook<\/span> Walter Magaya is a flashy pastor with a huge following <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A court in Zimbabwe has fined a popular self-styled prophet $700 (C$920) for falsely claiming he had a herbal cure for HIV and Aids.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Magaya, 35, earlier pleaded guilty to contravening the Medicines Control Act by distributing and selling an unapproved drug.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested him in November, and seized a herbal drug which he said could cure people who had HIV and Aids.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/world\/zimbabwe-pastor-convicted-over-hiv-cure\/ar-BBTcPXq\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u00a9 Walter Magaya\/Facebook Walter Magaya is a flashy pastor with a huge following A court in Zimbabwe has fined a popular self-styled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}