{"id":61694,"date":"2022-06-25T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/venezuelan-believers-celebrate-san-juan-festival-photos\/"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:35:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:35:57","slug":"venezuelan-believers-celebrate-san-juan-festival-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/venezuelan-believers-celebrate-san-juan-festival-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan believers celebrate San Juan festival (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"firstP\">\n<p>Hundreds of Venezuelans gathered in the streets of Kuriepe today to celebrate San Juan&#8217;s first festival since the pandemic closed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The festival is a blurry mix of Christianity, paganism and the African heritage of the country&#8217;s demographics.<\/p>\n<p>Today was also the first local celebration since the holiday was included in the UNESCO world heritage in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the song itself says, &#8216;San Juan has it and San Juan gives it to you&#8217;, so we get excited when we think of San Juan and prepare to look so great,&#8221; says local singer Marilis Blanco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have incredible faith in San Juan because he healed my son when he was near death.  &#8220;San Juan makes me cry, makes me laugh and makes me dance,&#8221; says Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Another believer, Norma Soto River, says the festival is a manifestation of the spiritual side, culture and experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe in San Juan Bautista, because God lives in me.  &#8220;I respect and love him, that&#8217;s why he always accompanies me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">\n<strong><\/p>\n<p>top channel<br \/>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\tvar ajaxurl = \"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\";<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Google Analytics\n\t\twindow.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\tfunction gtag() {\n\t\t\tdataLayer.push(arguments);\n\t\t}\n\t\tgtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>\t\tgtag('config', 'UA-7855069-1');<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\/\/Facebook\n\t\twindow.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n\t\t\tFB.init({\n\t\t\t\tappId: '1715618661991455',\n\t\t\t\txfbml: true,\n\t\t\t\tversion: 'v2.10'\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t\tFB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n\t\t};<\/p>\n<p>\t\t(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\tif (d.getElementById(id)) {\n\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\tjs = d.createElement(s);\n\t\t\tjs.id = id;\n\t\t\tjs.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n\t\t\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/top-channel.tv\/2022\/06\/25\/besimtaret-venezuelane-celebrojne-festivalin-e-san-juan-fotot\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Hundreds of Venezuelans gathered in the streets of Kuriepe today to celebrate San Juan&#8217;s first festival since the pandemic closed. The festival is a blurry mix of Christianity, paganism and the African heritage of the country&#8217;s demographics. Today was also the first local celebration since the holiday was included in the UNESCO world heritage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[6568,5726,2800,13879,1388,5659,6049],"class_list":["post-61694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attualita","tag-believers","tag-celebrate","tag-festival","tag-juan","tag-photos","tag-san","tag-venezuelan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imalbania.com\/kosova\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}