{"id":80417,"date":"2019-07-12T02:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80417"},"modified":"2019-07-12T03:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T01:36:38","slug":"alleluya-band-impressed-with-malawians-gesture-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/alleluya-band-impressed-with-malawians-gesture-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleluya band impressed with Malawians gesture in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Isaac Salima:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/coss-chiwalo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24214 alignleft\" src=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/coss-chiwalo-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/coss-chiwalo-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/coss-chiwalo-610x332.jpg 610w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/coss-chiwalo.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Alleluya Band\u2019s senior member Coss Chiwalo has said he is impressed with kind gesture Malawians based in Italy have shown to them.<\/p>\n<p>The Balaka-based group left on June 1 for Italy where they are <a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/over-40-shows-for-alleluya-band-in-italy\/\">holding shows.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chiwalo said they were pleased that, for the first time since they started making the trips to Italy, Malawians were patronising their shows in large numbers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe have been to Italy for some years but, this year, it is a different case as Malawians based here are coming in large numbers to patronise our shows.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLast Saturday, we were also treated to dinner where our fellow Malawians prepared local dishes. We really felt at home as this has never happened before,\u201d<\/em> Chiwalo said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said they had, so far, held 12 shows and were expected to have 46 shows in total.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s delegation of 12 people is based in Bergamo City.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi\u2019s oldest gospel group goes to Italy every year with the aim of raising funds for different projects at Andiamo campus in Balaka District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Isaac Salima: Alleluya Band\u2019s senior member Coss Chiwalo has said he is impressed with kind gesture Malawians based in Italy have shown to them. The Balaka-based group left on June 1 for Italy where they are holding shows. Chiwalo said they were pleased that, for the first time since they started making the trips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80448,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80417\/revisions\/80448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}