{"id":37215,"date":"2013-02-09T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cardinal_onaiyekan_of_abuja_nigerias_religious_persecution_caught_church_by\/"},"modified":"2013-02-09T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:31:09","slug":"cardinal_onaiyekan_of_abuja_nigerias_religious_persecution_caught_church_by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37215","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Onaiyekan of Abuja: Nigeria\u2019s religious persecution caught the Church by surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church burnings, attacks on worshippers and suicide bombings in Nigeria are a recent phenomenon that threatens the longstanding harmony between Muslims and Christians, warned Nigeria\u2019s new cardinal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(This) is all new to us,\u201d\u009d Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja, told MPs and Senators of the Canada Holy See Friendship Group Feb. 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t think it would ever happen.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/news\/canada\/item\/15816-nigeria%E2%80%99s-religious-persecution-caught-church-by-surprise\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church burnings, attacks on worshippers and suicide bombings in Nigeria are a recent phenomenon that threatens the longstanding harmony between Muslims and Christians, warned Nigeria\u2019s new cardinal. \u201c(This) is all new to us,\u201d\u009d Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37215\">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":[39,40,42,161,426,154,155,108,364,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37215","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=37215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}