{"id":89195,"date":"2020-02-04T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89195"},"modified":"2020-02-04T07:23:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:23:30","slug":"ct-nigerian-christians-marched-sunday-to-protest-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89195","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Nigerian Christians Marched Sunday to Protest Persecution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on reports from its state chapters and local media, CAN estimates 5 million people marched in 28 of Nigeria\u2019s 36 states on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough we have protested before, this event took a new dimension,\u201d CAN president Samson Ayokunle told CT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith one voice, we said \u2018no\u2019 to killings, \u2018no\u2019 to security negligence, and \u2018no\u2019 to the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. It is a wake-up call to the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/february\/nigeria-christian-prayer-walk-can-enoch-adeboye-buhari.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Lord, have mercy on Nigeria, let there be peace and security. God sees all things and knows where the terrorists are hiding. We pray that God send his light to Nigeria and expose the evildoers in the country.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMo8HZgEGs\">https:\/\/t.co\/HMo8HZgEGs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1224559205367058432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2020<\/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>Based on reports from its state chapters and local media, CAN estimates 5 million people marched in 28 of Nigeria\u2019s 36 states on Sunday. \u201cThough we have protested before, this event took a new dimension,\u201d CAN president Samson Ayokunle told<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89195\">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":[168,554,151,108,157,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-nigeria-africa","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-religious-freedom-persecution","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89195","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=89195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89197,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89195\/revisions\/89197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}