{"id":63371,"date":"2017-09-12T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63371"},"modified":"2017-09-12T18:51:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:51:02","slug":"christian-today-nigerian-fulani-attack-on-christian-village-leaves-20-dead-9-of-them-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63371","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Today) Nigerian Fulani attack on Christian village leaves 20 dead \u2013 9 of them children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Fulani herdsmen have murdered 20 Christians, 19 of them from the same Baptist church and one from a Methodist church.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place during the night of September 7-8, according to sources in the village of Ancha in Plateau State.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.persecution.org\/\">International Christian Concern<\/a>\u00a0(ICC), one entire family was killed in the attack. Five others were injured and are being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor of Salama Baptist Church told ICC: &#8216;My heart is terribly heavy. I haven&#8217;t been able to sleep.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rev Nanchwat Laven said the militia came into the village at around midnight. He said relations between the two communities had been good. &#8216;Of course we have had issues from time to time with the herdsmen letting their cattle graze into our farms and destroy our crops,&#8217; he said. &#8216;It would appear the Fulanis [launched this] attack because they had&#8230;some provocative attitude [about] their cattle [grazing] on our farms.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/nigerian.fulani.attack.on.christian.village.leaves.20.dead.9.of.them.children\/113555.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Fulani herdsmen have murdered 20 Christians, 19 of them from the same Baptist church and one from a Methodist church. The attack took place during the night of September 7-8, according to sources in the village of Ancha in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63371\">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":[327,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63371","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=63371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63372,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63371\/revisions\/63372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}