{"id":873815,"date":"2025-09-18T00:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/kidnappings-killings-why-catholic-clergies-are-targeted\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:13:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:13:28","slug":"kidnappings-killings-why-catholic-clergies-are-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/kidnappings-killings-why-catholic-clergies-are-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappings, Killings: Why Catholic Clergies Are Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, a chilling wave of kidnappings and killings has swept through Nigeria, targeting Christian clergy, particularly Catholics. These attacks have sent shockwaves through the Catholic community and the nation at large, sparking urgent questions about the motives behind these atrocities. The Catholic Diocese of Auchi in Edo state&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thewhistler.ng\/kidnappings-killings-why-catholic-clergies-are-targeted\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Nneka ASOGWA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, a chilling wave of kidnappings and killings has swept through Nigeria, targeting Christian clergy, particularly Catholics. These attacks have sent shockwaves through the Catholic community and the nation at large, sparking urgent questions about the motives behind these atrocities. The Catholic Diocese of Auchi in Edo state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":873816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146398,87388,192],"tags":[146397,15980],"class_list":["post-873815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kidnappings","category-killings","category-sports","tag-kidnappings","tag-killings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}