{"id":1231733,"date":"2022-10-22T18:53:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/22\/sista-afia-to-embark-on-two-weeks-fasting-and-prayers-for-black-stars-ahead-of-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-10-22T18:53:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T18:53:16","slug":"sista-afia-to-embark-on-two-weeks-fasting-and-prayers-for-black-stars-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/22\/sista-afia-to-embark-on-two-weeks-fasting-and-prayers-for-black-stars-ahead-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sista Afia to embark on two weeks fasting and prayers for Black Stars ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/96754775_905636009899031_7994311964023857487_n-1-1-1024x657.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Musician Sista Afia says she would be seeking God\u2019s mercies for the national team, Black Stars, ahead of the 2022 World Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Twitter, the singer said she would embark on a two-week fasting and prayer session for the Black stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFasting for the black stars for two weeks before the World Cup,\u201d Sista Afia wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fasting for the black stars for two weeks before the World Cup \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 QUEENSOLOMON (@sista_afia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sista_afia\/status\/1583107611016105984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes after the Ghana Football Association announced national fasting and prayer dates for both the Christian and Muslim communities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims were expected to fast and pray on Friday, October 21.\u00a0The Christian community will hold their national fasting and prayer on Sunday, October 23.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Time to turn to Lord. We need to win that World Cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sNyhdvIcLT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/sNyhdvIcLT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Muftawu Nabila Abdulai (@Muftawu_Nabila) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Muftawu_Nabila\/status\/1583108631398338560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jeffery Schlupp, Salis Abdul Samed, Samuel Owusu and Majeed Asimeru have all been included in the Black Stars provisional 55-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The quartet are among a host of other players including Bayer Leverkusen forward Callum Hudson-Odoi, who are part of the technical team\u2019s pre-tournament squad as the tournament edges closer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/sista-afia-to-embark-on-two-weeks-fasting-and-prayers-for-black-stars-ahead-of-world-cup\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Sista Afia says she would be seeking God\u2019s mercies for the national team, Black Stars, ahead of the 2022 World Cup tournament. In a post on Twitter, the singer said she would embark on a two-week fasting and prayer session for the Black stars. \u201cFasting for the black stars for two weeks before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7538,260,94,262,6079,695,859,13200,95,625,784],"class_list":["post-1231733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-afia","tag-ahead","tag-black","tag-cup","tag-embark","tag-fasting","tag-prayers","tag-sista","tag-stars","tag-weeks","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}