{"id":48676,"date":"2015-03-04T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nigerian_r-_catholic_bishops_denounce_boko_harams_use_of_children_as_suicid\/"},"modified":"2015-03-04T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:40:22","slug":"nigerian_r-_catholic_bishops_denounce_boko_harams_use_of_children_as_suicid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48676","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian R. Catholic bishops denounce Boko Haram\u2019s use of children as suicide bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s bishops have condemned Boko Haram\u2019s use of children to commit suicide bombings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deplore the fact that young children are used to commit such crimes, and the fact that young Nigerians are used by politicians to intimidate and inflict violence on their political opponents is a disturbing symptom of breakdown of family values in our society,\u201d\u009d the bishops said at the end of a five-day meeting on the theme, \u201d\u02dcGood Families Make Good Nations\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wonder: Who are the parents of these young Nigerians? Do these young ones not belong to families?\u201d\u009d it said.<\/p>\n<p>It said that many families were currently facing challenges caused by the Boko Haram insurgency and the heightened tension occasioned by the coming general elections, now scheduled for March 28 and April 11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2015\/03\/03\/nigeria-bishops-denounce-boko-harams-use-of-children-as-suicide-bombers\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s bishops have condemned Boko Haram\u2019s use of children to commit suicide bombings. \u201cWe deplore the fact that young children are used to commit such crimes, and the fact that young Nigerians are used by politicians to intimidate and inflict<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48676\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,101,168,426,327,154,155,108,364,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-nigeria","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48676","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=48676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}