{"id":80936,"date":"2019-04-29T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80936"},"modified":"2019-04-29T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T22:43:42","slug":"afp-jihadists-kill-pastor-four-others-in-burkina-church-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80936","title":{"rendered":"(AFP) Jihadists kill pastor, four others in Burkina church attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s raid took place in the small northern town of Silgadji near Djibo, the capital of Soum province.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unidentified armed individuals have attacked the Protestant church in Silgadji, killing four members of the congregation and the main pastor,&#8221; a security source told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At least two other people are missing,&#8221; the source added.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first attack on a church since jihadist violence erupted in Burkina Faso in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Former colonial ruler France has deployed some 4,500 troops in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad in a mission codenamed Barkhane to help local forces try to flush out jihadist groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attack happened around 1:00 pm, just as the faithful were leaving the church at the end of the service,&#8221; a member of the church who did not want to be identified told AFP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/jihadists-kill-pastor-four-others-burkina-church-attack-111415589.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lord have mercy<\/p>\n<p>Jihadists kill pastor, four others in Burkina church attack <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uNoovF4rXU\">https:\/\/t.co\/uNoovF4rXU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BAME Anglican &#x1f49b; (@BAMEAnglican) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BAMEAnglican\/status\/1122939977476665344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s raid took place in the small northern town of Silgadji near Djibo, the capital of Soum province. &#8220;Unidentified armed individuals have attacked the Protestant church in Silgadji, killing four members of the congregation and the main pastor,&#8221; a security<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=80936\">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":[202,542,184,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-burkina-faso","category-parish-ministry","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80936","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=80936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80938,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80936\/revisions\/80938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}