{"id":33124,"date":"2012-06-18T21:28:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_bombings_reprisal_attacks_claim_45_lives_in_nigeria\/"},"modified":"2012-06-18T21:28:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:28:38","slug":"church_bombings_reprisal_attacks_claim_45_lives_in_nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33124","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Church bombings, reprisal attacks, claim 45 lives in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop George Dodo of Zaria, Nigeria, was in the middle of his homily June 17 \u201cwhen we heard a loud explosion.\u201d\u009d A car bomb had just exploded near the Cathedral of Christ the King, where the bishop was celebrating the second Mass of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe car bomb created a crater two feet deep; all around there was broken glass, rubble and burning cars,\u201d\u009d the bishop told Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Reuters, the British news agency, reported 10 people were killed at Christ the King.<\/p>\n<p>Bombings also were reported at the Evangelical Church of the Good News in Zaria and at churches in Kaduna. Vatican Radio said June 18 that the total death toll from the Sunday bombings had reached 45 and some 100 people were reported injured, either by the bombings or by reprisal attacks afterward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicreview.org\/article\/home\/church-bombings-reprisal-attacks-claim-45-lives-in-nigeria\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop George Dodo of Zaria, Nigeria, was in the middle of his homily June 17 \u201cwhen we heard a loud explosion.\u201d\u009d A car bomb had just exploded near the Cathedral of Christ the King, where the bishop was celebrating the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33124\">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":[39,40,50,202,114,327,578,151,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-law-legal-issues","category-nigeria","category-policefire","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33124","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=33124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}