{"id":18376,"date":"2018-04-24T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18376"},"modified":"2018-04-24T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:47:16","slug":"horrible-fulani-herdsmen-kill-two-priests-17-catholic-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=18376","title":{"rendered":"HORRIBLE: FULANI HERDSMEN KILL TWO PRIESTS, 17 CATHOLIC FAITHFUL IN BENUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f9c8l\" data-offset-key=\"f0931-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"f0931-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"f0931-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-18350\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Sheriff-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"f0931-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"f0931-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f0931-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f0931-0-0\">IT was a black morning at Ayar Mbalom in Gwer East local government area of Benue state when Armed Fulani herdsmen, around 6 am today attacked Catholic faithful who had gone for morning mass and killed two priests and 17 other members. The priests were Rev Father JOSEPH Gor and his assistant Priest, Father Felix\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f9c8l\" data-offset-key=\"60fdc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"60fdc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"60fdc-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f9c8l\" data-offset-key=\"744k2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"744k2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"744k2-0-0\">The incident happened at St. Ignatius Quasi Parish Ukpor-Mbalom in Ayar-Mbalom community of Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f9c8l\" data-offset-key=\"86mms-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"86mms-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"86mms-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f9c8l\" data-offset-key=\"e9lsq-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e9lsq-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e9lsq-0-0\">Our Correspondent gathered that the attackers also burnt down over 100 houses during the attack and sacked the entire community.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f9c8l\" data-offset-key=\"1e9b7-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1e9b7-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1e9b7-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f9c8l\" data-offset-key=\"brj11-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"17p0g-0-0\">\u00a0<span data-offset-key=\"17p0g-0-0\">The acting governor, Benson Abound had last week raised the alarm of planned attacks on five communities in the state calling on the federal government to deploy more security men to the state..<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"17p0g-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/REV-GOR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18377\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/REV-GOR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/REV-GOR.jpg 720w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/REV-GOR-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16031&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT was a black morning at Ayar Mbalom in Gwer East local government area of Benue state when Armed Fulani herdsmen, around 6 am today attacked Catholic faithful who had gone for morning mass and killed two priests and 17 other members. The priests were Rev Father JOSEPH Gor and his assistant Priest, Father Felix\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/REV-GOR.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4Mo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18381,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions\/18381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}