{"id":32308,"date":"2012-05-03T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/violence_in_nigeria_breaking_the_countrys_fatal_deadlock\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:40:20","slug":"violence_in_nigeria_breaking_the_countrys_fatal_deadlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32308","title":{"rendered":"Violence in Nigeria: Breaking the Country&#39;s Fatal Deadlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into the flagship church of one of Nigeria&#8217;s largest denominations, angry Christian youth retaliated by burning Muslim shops and killing nearby motorcycle riders.<\/p>\n<p>The February incident, which killed 12 and injured 40 at the Church of Christ in Nigeria&#8217;s Jos headquarters, fueled the global debate over whether Nigeria will erupt into a religious civil war. Christmas Day bombings of northern churches by Islamist extremists, which killed 44, also fueled such fears. The headlines haven&#8217;t stopped since. On Sunday, gunmen attacked church services in Kano and in Maiduguri, killing at least 21 people, including a pastor preparing for Communion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2012\/april\/nigeria-deadlock.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into the flagship church of one of Nigeria&#8217;s largest denominations, angry Christian youth retaliated by burning Muslim shops and killing nearby motorcycle riders. The February incident, which killed 12 and injured 40<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32308\">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":[39,50,42,202,426,659,327,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32308","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=32308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}