{"id":122185,"date":"2023-07-19T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T16:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122185"},"modified":"2023-07-19T18:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T22:14:04","slug":"church-times-nigerian-christians-under-relentless-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122185","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Nigerian Christians \u2018under relentless attack\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks on Christian communities in parts of Nigeria are now relentless, as men, women, and children are killed and churches are burned, the Director of Mission Operations in the Anglican diocese of Jos, the Ven. Mark Mukan, has reported.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke at Holy Trinity, Eastbourne, on a \u201cDay of the Christian Martyr\u201d event last month. It was part of \u201cOut of the Ashes\u201d: a three-month campaign of events in the UK organised by the charity Release International to highlight the suffering of Christians in Nigeria (News, 9 June).<\/p>\n<p>Archdeacon Mukan described a campaign of murder and arson, with houses, churches, hospitals, and farmland \u201cburned to ashes\u201d, in the north-east of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the Christians in the north \u2014 most of whom belong to the Church of the Brethren \u2014 had been killed or displaced, including at least eight of their pastors, he said, and the denomination had been almost wiped out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2023\/14-july\/news\/world\/nigerian-christians-under-relentless-attack\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nigerian Christians \u2018under relentless attack\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b6cYDUrOmd\">https:\/\/t.co\/b6cYDUrOmd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1679827939771269120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks on Christian communities in parts of Nigeria are now relentless, as men, women, and children are killed and churches are burned, the Director of Mission Operations in the Anglican diocese of Jos, the Ven. Mark Mukan, has reported. He<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122185\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,554,184,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-nigeria","category-nigeria-africa","category-parish-ministry","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122189,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122185\/revisions\/122189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}