{"id":3298,"date":"2025-01-19T12:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T12:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2025-01-19T12:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T12:28:24","slug":"ruto-attends-inter-denominational-church-service-in-bungoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/ruto-attends-inter-denominational-church-service-in-bungoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto attends inter-denominational church service in Bungoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-content overflow-hidden\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/news\/2025-01-19-ruto-attends-inter-denominational-church-service-in-bungoma\">\n<p>President William Ruto on Sunday attended an interdenominational Prayer Service in Cheptais, Mt Elgon, Bungom County.<\/p>\n<p>The church service was also graced by Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi and Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetang&#8217;ula.<\/p>\n<p>Bungoma Governor Ken Lusaka, senators and several members of the National Assembly were also present.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders present rallied the region behind President Ruto&#8217;s government saying they will push his agenda to the grassroots regions.<\/p>\n<p>The church service in Bungoma came a few days after ANC folded up to merge with the UDA party in a key rebranding strategy ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The merger saw the deputy party leader&#8217;s seat in the UDA divided into two with\u00a0 DP Kithure Kindiki on word and Lamu Governor Isa Timamy on the other.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com\/image\/2025\/01\/ec5719c3-cb5a-4657-988b-733d293f612b.jpeg\" \/><figcaption class=\"\" contenteditable=\"true\">President William Ruto being welcomed in Cheptais, Mt Elgon for a church service on Sunday, January 19, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com\/image\/2025\/01\/260dfb4e-0375-4ed3-bcb9-5cf27e3a5e58.jpeg\" \/><figcaption class=\"\" contenteditable=\"true\">President William Ruto engaging Speaker Moses Wetang&#8217;ula in cheptais, Mt Elgon during a church service on Sunday, January 19, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com\/image\/2025\/01\/eb549e0b-123f-474d-b43b-48bdc76dad79.jpeg\" \/><figcaption class=\"\" contenteditable=\"true\">MPs at Church service in Cheptais, Mt Elgon on Sunday, January 19, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto on Sunday attended an interdenominational Prayer Service in Cheptais, Mt Elgon, Bungom County. The church service was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}