{"id":177373,"date":"2025-09-20T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177373"},"modified":"2025-09-20T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:16:11","slug":"elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177373","title":{"rendered":"ELCA elects first Black presiding bishop, calls Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza a genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNS) \u2014\u00a0The Rev. Yehiel Curry, bishop of the ELCA\u2019s Metropolitan Chicago Synod since 2019, will serve a six-year term as presiding bishop of the 2.7 million-member denomination.<br \/>\nThe post ELCA elects first Black presiding bishop, calls Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza a genocide appeared first on RNS&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2025\/07\/31\/elca-elects-yehiel-curry-its-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNS) \u2014\u00a0The Rev. Yehiel Curry, bishop of the ELCA\u2019s Metropolitan Chicago Synod since 2019, will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide.jpg",600,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide.jpg",600,600,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide.jpg",600,600,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide.jpg",600,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide.jpg",600,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide.jpg",600,600,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide-600x575.jpg",600,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177373-elca-elects-first-black-presiding-bishop-calls-israels-actions-in-gaza-a-genocide-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=14\" rel=\"category\">BREAKING NEWS<\/a>","tag_info":"BREAKING NEWS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}