{"id":71051,"date":"2018-05-11T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71051"},"modified":"2018-05-11T06:51:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T10:51:25","slug":"bbc-how-nigerias-cattle-war-is-fuelling-religious-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71051","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) How Nigeria&#8217;s cattle war is fuelling religious tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in central Nigeria is increasingly assuming a religious dimension, writes the BBC&#8217;s Mayeni Jones after visiting Benue state.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Nyamgba is a tall, wiry farmer with sharp cheekbones and piercing eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He guides me to a small bungalow adjacent to the local church, St Ignatus. It was the home of local priest Father Joseph Gor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is his blood,&#8221; he says, as he points to faint pink splatters on the wall of the porch of the house.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is where he was killed. They shot him as he was getting on this motorbike to escape and his blood sprayed on the wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Father Gor was killed in the compound of his Catholic church, in the small village of Mbalom, about an hour&#8217;s drive south from the capital of Benue state, Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-44039546\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in central Nigeria is increasingly assuming a religious dimension, writes the BBC&#8217;s Mayeni Jones after visiting Benue state. Sebastian Nyamgba is a tall, wiry farmer with sharp cheekbones and piercing eyes. He<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71051\">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":[189,659,554,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria-africa","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71051","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=71051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71053,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71051\/revisions\/71053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}