{"id":51806,"date":"2015-09-27T00:14:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T00:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nigerian_anglican_bishops_pray_against_insurgency_kidnapping\/"},"modified":"2015-09-27T00:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T00:14:31","slug":"nigerian_anglican_bishops_pray_against_insurgency_kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51806","title":{"rendered":"(Vanguard) Nigerian Anglican bishops pray against insurgency, kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 180 bishops, laity and Clergy of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) converged on Akure, the Ondo State capital from Monday to Thursday last week to seek the face of God over the challenges of insurgency and kidnapping in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Primate of the church, Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh said the only way out of the current spate of terrorism is \u201cto look up to Jesus in simple faith and obedience.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Cathedral Church of Saint David, Diocese of Akure, the venue of meeting of the church standing committee titled; \u201cLook and live\u201d\u009d, Okoh expressed worries over \u201cthe poisonous serpent of insurgency and kidnapping ravaging the country\u201d\u009d, lamenting that \u201cthese people kill, maim and destroy without the slightest qualms and most times in very crude and dastardly manner&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2015\/09\/anglican-bishops-pray-against-insurgency-kidnapping\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 180 bishops, laity and Clergy of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) converged on Akure, the Ondo State capital from Monday to Thursday last week to seek the face of God over the challenges of insurgency and kidnapping in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51806\">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":[36,39,50,202,74,390,114,327,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-nigeria","category-law-legal-issues","category-nigeria","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51806","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=51806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}