{"id":147463,"date":"2026-09-23T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147463"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:22:32","slug":"christian-post-pastor-killed-on-way-to-church-among-9-slaughtered-in-fresh-attacks-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147463","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Post) Pastor killed on way to church among 9 slaughtered in fresh attacks in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A pastor was shot and killed while on his way to a church service in Nigeria\u2019s Plateau State on Sunday morning, one of at least nine people killed in a series of attacks in rural communities over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pastor was walking to a church service at Dorowa Babuje in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area with a second victim when both were shot, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ng\/breaking-9-killed-in-fresh-attacks-in-plateau-communities-passengers-pastors-among-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leadership<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither victim had been named publicly as of Sunday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalaccordnewspaper.com\/pastor-another-killed-on-way-to-church-in-plateau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Accord<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/9-killed-in-nigeria-attacks-including-pastor-heading-to-church.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A pastor walking to Sunday service was shot dead, one of nine killed in weekend attacks in Nigeria&#39;s Plateau State. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Nigeria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nigeria<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/PlateauState?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PlateauState<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/PersecutedChurch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PersecutedChurch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Pastor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pastor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/ChristianPost?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChristianPost<\/a><br>&#x1f517; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SCSjmsCSL0\">https:\/\/t.co\/SCSjmsCSL0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R5yEU278DB\">https:\/\/t.co\/R5yEU278DB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8qqwzowmho\">pic.twitter.com\/8qqwzowmho<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Christian Post (@ChristianPost) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChristianPost\/status\/2102080721716379934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor was shot and killed while on his way to a church service in Nigeria\u2019s Plateau State on Sunday morning, one of at least nine people killed in a series of attacks in rural communities over the weekend. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147463\">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":[438,554,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-nigeria-africa","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147463","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=147463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147469,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147463\/revisions\/147469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}