{"id":118008,"date":"2016-03-25T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=118008"},"modified":"2016-03-25T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T12:32:18","slug":"the-devil-is-always-trying-to-tempt-us-zuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/118008\/the-devil-is-always-trying-to-tempt-us-zuma\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Devil is always trying to tempt us&#8217;: Zuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma on Friday called on Christians to pray for politicians amid temptation from the Devil while they tried to do their work.<\/p>\n<p>The president was speaking to congregants of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God at the Ellis Park Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need you to pray for us as the leaders, as it\u2019s mention in the bible. Please pray for us not to make mistakes,&#8221; he said in IsiZulu, as recorded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/live-video-president-zuma-joins-universal-church-easter-service\" target=\"_blank\">ENCA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know the Devil is always out to tempt us. Please pray for us to behave and\u00a0 treat each other with respect in parliament.\u00a0Also pray for us to govern well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You must pray for government to run the country by the will God and that of the people,&#8221; said Zuma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More on president Zuma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/117832\/dramatic-drop-in-anc-support-for-zuma-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">How much damage Zuma is doing to the ANC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/117806\/zuma-a-hero-who-has-done-magnificent-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Zuma a hero who has done magnificent things\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/117774\/why-the-anc-wont-recall-zuma\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Why the ANC won\u2019t recall Zuma<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/117934\/watch-zuma-discloses-his-relationship-with-the-gupta-family\/\">Watch: Zuma discloses his relationship with the Gupta family<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma on Friday called on Christians to pray for politicians, as the devil was trying to tempt them while they tried to do their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":107505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-118008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118016,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118008\/revisions\/118016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}