{"id":19512,"date":"2019-03-01T22:43:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T22:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19512"},"modified":"2019-03-01T22:43:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T22:43:37","slug":"prayer-week-focused-on-hiv-healing-to-kick-off-with-vigil-end-with-breakfast-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/01\/prayer-week-focused-on-hiv-healing-to-kick-off-with-vigil-end-with-breakfast-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer week focused on HIV healing to kick off with vigil, end with breakfast, theater"},"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><div class=\"image-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2017\/03\/03\/TennGroup\/Knoxville\/636241386504301345-PERNESSAPOWER-PROMOTIONAL.jpg?width=1080&amp;quality=50\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"image-meta\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">Pernessa Steele, founder of the Balm in Gilead nonprofit and an ordained minister, is keynote speaker for the prayer breakfast concluding National Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-credit\">Submitted\/Paul V. Grant-Ascender Communica<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For 30 years, churches \u2014\u00a0black churches, in particular \u2014 have dedicated a week to focus on prayer for the healing and elimination of the HIV virus.<\/p>\n<p>It seems at least some of those prayers are being answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Between 2013-2017 in Tennessee, the number of new HIV diagnoses decreased among all ages, men and women, and nearly every race \u2014 including a dramatic decrease of 30 percent among black women, who make up one-third of new HIV cases in Tennessee despite representing only 17 percent of the population. <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.knoxnews.com\/story\/news\/health\/2019\/03\/01\/prayer-week-focused-hiv-healing-kick-off-vigil-end-breakfast-theater-group\/3007246002\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\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>Pernessa Steele, founder of the Balm in Gilead nonprofit and an ordained minister, is keynote speaker for the prayer breakfast concluding National&#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-19512","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\/19512","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=19512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}