{"id":699,"date":"2018-05-14T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:32:15","slug":"herdsmen-killings-catholic-bishops-plan-nationwide-protest-may-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Herdsmen killings: Catholic bishops plan nationwide protest May 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, has fixed Tuesday, May 22, as a day of protests for Catholic faithful across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The CBCN said the protests would coincide with the burial of the two priests and 17 parishioners killed by herdsmen during a morning mass at Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, entitled \u201cPeaceful Demonstration,\u201d read:\u00a0 \u201cThe CBCN has directed that every Diocese in Nigeria should organise a peaceful demonstration\/ rally against the barbaric but intolerable killing of two priests and 17 others by herdsmen last month in Benue State, Date May 22, 2018. Time: 10am, as the funeral of the innocent victims would be going on. \u201cDetails of how this all important solidarity action will take place in our dioceses will be communicated through the parish priests. Every Christian and all men and women of goodwill are hereby called to participate.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, has fixed Tuesday, May 22, as a day of protests for Catholic faithful across the country. The CBCN said the protests would coincide &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}