{"id":31293,"date":"2024-05-14T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T10:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=31293"},"modified":"2024-05-14T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T10:38:37","slug":"phyna-criticizes-apostle-lazarus-over-remarks-on-women-and-fatherly-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/14\/phyna-criticizes-apostle-lazarus-over-remarks-on-women-and-fatherly-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Phyna Criticizes Apostle Lazarus over Remarks on Women and Fatherly Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Big Brother Naija reality star, Josephina Otabor, known as Phyna, has voiced her disapproval of comments made by Apostle Femi Lazarus of the Sphere of Light Church regarding women who lack fatherly affection. In a sermon captured in a viral video, Apostle Lazarus suggested that women without paternal love tend to be &#8220;sexually loose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Phyna, taking to her X platform, expressed her disagreement with the clergyman&#8217;s statement, condemning the act of generalizing such sensitive matters. She emphasized her own upbringing without a father figure, asserting that despite this, she did not exhibit the behavior attributed by Apostle Lazarus.<\/p>\n<p>In her response, Phyna acknowledged her past mistake of making generalizations, now recognizing the complexity and individuality of people&#8217;s experiences. She apologized for any previous instances where she may have inadvertently contributed to misconceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst interactions with users on her platform, Phyna addressed a dissenting opinion by referencing her past admission of undergoing abortion, implying that her personal experiences and growth should be taken into account when evaluating her perspective on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah Big Brother Naija reality star, Josephina Otabor, known as Phyna, has voiced her disapproval of comments made by Apostle Femi Lazarus of the Sphere of Light Church regarding women who lack fatherly affection. In a sermon captured in a viral video, Apostle Lazarus suggested that women without paternal love tend to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":31294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31295,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31293\/revisions\/31295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}