{"id":49077,"date":"2015-03-28T20:14:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_nigerian_christians_may_back_a_muslim_candidate_in_upcoming_presidentia\/"},"modified":"2015-03-28T20:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T20:14:52","slug":"rns_nigerian_christians_may_back_a_muslim_candidate_in_upcoming_presidentia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49077","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Nigerian Christians may back a Muslim candidate in upcoming presidential elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the shadow of Boko Haram violence, Nigerians head to the polls Saturday (March 28) to elect a president and a deputy in a vote observers say is critical for the country\u2019s stability and economic progress.<\/p>\n<p>In a twist that might have been difficult to predict, many Christians in Nigeria\u2019s north are backing a Muslim candidate to lead their country away from the brink of violence and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim from the north and the leader of the All Progressives Congress party, is challenging the leadership of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south who heads the ruling People\u2019s Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Some Nigerians fear that another term for Jonathan would mean institutionalization of corruption and emergence of more Muslim extremist groups in addition to Boko Haram. And they are willing to pin their hopes on a Muslim candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/03\/24\/nigerian-christians-may-back-muslim-candidate-upcoming-presidential-elections\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the shadow of Boko Haram violence, Nigerians head to the polls Saturday (March 28) to elect a president and a deputy in a vote observers say is critical for the country\u2019s stability and economic progress. In a twist that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49077\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,168,426,659,327,155,151,108,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49077","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-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49077","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=49077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}