{"id":303331,"date":"2010-02-10T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2010-02-10T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:43:44","slug":"venezuelans-turn-to-god-over-power-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303331","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelans turn to God over power crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power-rationing has failed. The rains have still not come. So Venezuelan electricity workers are seeking divine help to solve the nation&#8217;s power crisis.<\/p>\n<p>State oil company Edelca has summoned all its workers to an hourlong prayer meeting scheduled for Friday and titled: &#8220;<em>Clamor to God for the National Electricity Sector<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11764\" title=\"VENEZUELA-ELECTRICITY\/\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/02\/ven.jpg\" alt=\"VENEZUELA-ELECTRICITY\/\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Let us support this summons with our presence, united in our commitment to lift up our great company<\/em>,&#8221; Edelca President Igor Gavidia Leon wrote in a note to staff, under a quote from the Bible saying God will hear the prayers of humble people.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1016719520100210\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power-rationing has failed. The rains have still not come. So Venezuelan electricity workers are seeking divine help to solve the nation&#8217;s power crisis. State oil company Edelca has summoned all its workers to an hourlong prayer meeting scheduled for Friday and titled: &#8220;Clamor to God for the National Electricity Sector.&#8221; &#8220;Let us support this summons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}