{"id":3326,"date":"2023-11-23T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-13-251-63-149.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2023-11-22T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:50:31","slug":"article-fatherly-sincere-compassion-and-warm-encouragement-for-africa-the-continent-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/article-fatherly-sincere-compassion-and-warm-encouragement-for-africa-the-continent-of-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"[Article] Fatherly Sincere Compassion and Warm Encouragement for Africa, the \u201cContinent of the 21st Century&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Kouame R\u00e9mi Koffi, Headquarters Leader, SGI C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I attended the monthly Headquarters leaders\u2019 meeting in March 2004. Though I was a member who had just begun practising Buddhism, much to my surprise, SGI President Ikeda invited me to the platform and gave me a laurel crown as the representative of SGI members from the 50 countries and territories, who were then staying in Japan. I keenly felt his fatherly sincere compassion as well as his warm encouragement for Africa, the &#8220;continent of the 21st century&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At this time. I pledged to myself to join the noble cause carried forward by the SGI leader who dedicates himself to the well-being of humanity and demonstrates the way of mentor and disciple.<\/p>\n<p>After returning home, I visited members\u2019 homes and held dialogues with each of them. Now our organisation has grown from 1200 members to 2800. For the future as well, I will be with Mr Ikeda in faith, thereby able to overcome any geographical distances and achieving success after success. (Jan 2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koffi\u2019s pledge, after encountering President Ikeda, led him to visit members\u2019 homes and hold dialogues with each of them. Now our organisation has grown from 1200 members to 2800. <br \/><strong>CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23nov","category-hs-treasuring-individuals-articles","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3341,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}