{"id":227053,"date":"2022-05-25T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/sokoto-the-parish-priest-and-his-assistant-and-2-boys-were-kidnapped?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T10:26:17","slug":"sokoto-the-parish-priest-and-his-assistant-and-2-boys-were-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sokoto-the-parish-priest-and-his-assistant-and-2-boys-were-kidnapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Sokoto: The parish priest and his assistant and 2 boys were kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/7b2d588ca15f6e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/7b2d588ca15f6e3\" alt=\"Catholic Diocese of Sokoto\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/7b2d588ca15f6e3\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As at midnight of today, 25th May, 2022, gunmen broke into the rectory of St. Patrick&#039;s Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, Kafur LGA of Katsina State. The parish priest and his assistant Rev. Frs. Stephen Ojapa, MSP, &amp; Oliver Okpara and 2 boys in the house were kidnapped. No information as to their whereabouts. Kindly pray for their safety and release.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fr Chris Omotosho (Director, Social Communications).<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo As at midnight of today, 25th May, 2022, gunmen broke into the rectory of St. Patrick&#039;s Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, Kafur LGA of Katsina State. The parish priest and his assistant Rev. Frs. Stephen Ojapa, MSP, &amp; Oliver Okpara and 2 boys in the house were kidnapped. No information as to their whereabouts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-227053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sokoto-the-parish-priest-and-his-assistant-and-2-boys-were-kidnapped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}