{"id":70572,"date":"2018-04-25T17:55:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70572"},"modified":"2018-04-25T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T18:29:49","slug":"cnn-nigeria-church-attack-leaves-19-dead-including-two-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70572","title":{"rendered":"(CNN) Nigeria church attack leaves 19 dead, including two priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 19 people were killed Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at a church in Nigeria&#8217;s Middle Belt, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Two priests and 17 worshippers were killed when armed men, believed to be cattle herders, stormed a Catholic church during early morning Mass on Tuesday in a remote village in Benue state.<br \/>\nState police spokesman Terver Akase told CNN the attackers, thought to be Fulani herdsmen, set many homes on fire.<br \/>\n&#8220;The herdsmen burnt nearly 50 houses during the attack and sacked the entire community, &#8221; Akase told CNN. &#8220;We expect arrests to be made because they (attackers) are becoming more brazen,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/04\/24\/africa\/nigeria-church-attack\/index.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 19 people were killed Tuesday after gunmen opened fire at a church in Nigeria&#8217;s Middle Belt, police said. Two priests and 17 worshippers were killed when armed men, believed to be cattle herders, stormed a Catholic church during<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70572\">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":[426,659,554,327,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria-africa","category-nigeria","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70572","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=70572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70574,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70572\/revisions\/70574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}