{"id":62236,"date":"2025-03-06T11:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62236"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:56:28","slug":"bishop-apologizes-after-backlash-over-tongue-to-tongue-anointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/06\/bishop-apologizes-after-backlash-over-tongue-to-tongue-anointing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Apologizes After Backlash Over \u2018Tongue-to-Tongue\u2019 Anointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Adenike Lawal\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bishop Alfred \u2018Lahojah\u2019 Ogunnusi of the Cherubim &amp; Seraphim Unification Church has issued a public apology after a viral video of his controversial tongue-to-tongue anointing ritual sparked outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Initially defending the act as biblically inspired, Ogunnusi cited Genesis 48:10 to justify his actions.<\/p>\n<p>However, amid mounting criticism, he later retracted, saying, \u201cPlease don\u2019t be angry\u2026 forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cherubim &amp; Seraphim Unification Church swiftly condemned the act, labeling it \u201cdisturbing and despicable.\u201d The controversy has reignited debates on religious accountability and acceptable spiritual practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal\u00a0 Bishop Alfred \u2018Lahojah\u2019 Ogunnusi of the Cherubim &amp; Seraphim Unification Church has issued a public apology after a viral video of his controversial tongue-to-tongue anointing ritual sparked outrage. Initially defending the act as biblically inspired, Ogunnusi cited Genesis 48:10 to justify his actions. However, amid mounting criticism, he later retracted, saying, \u201cPlease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62236","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62238,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62236\/revisions\/62238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}