{"id":61646,"date":"2025-09-10T15:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/?p=61646"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:59:22","slug":"nigeria-church-official-calls-for-justice-in-2022-pentecost-sunday-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/nigeria-church-official-calls-for-justice-in-2022-pentecost-sunday-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30ca\u30a4\u30b8\u30a7\u30ea\u30a2\u306e\u6559\u4f1a\u95a2\u4fc2\u8005\u30012022\u5e74\u306e\u8056\u970a\u964d\u81e8\u796d\u306e\u8972\u6483\u4e8b\u4ef6\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u6b63\u7fa9\u3092\u6c42\u3081\u308b"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Father Solomon Zaku, pictured on the right, is the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Nigeria and has called on the country\u2019s government to ensure justice is applied in the trial of the suspects linked to the 2022 Pentecost Sunday attack on St. Francis Xavier Owo Catholic Parish in the Ondo Diocese, which claimed at least 50 lives. \/ Credit: ACI Africa ACI Africa, Aug 24, 2025 \/ 08:00 am (CNA). 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The national director of the Pontifical Mission\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":63346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-61646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-news"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64607,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/ja\/learn\/catholic-priest-killed-in-senseless-act-of-violence-in-nigeria\/","url_meta":{"origin":61646,"position":0},"title":"Catholic priest killed in \u2018senseless act of violence\u2019 in Nigeria","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"9\u6708 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Father Matthew Eya, a parish priest in the Diocese of Nsukka in Nigeria, was shot and killed on the evening of Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, while returning to his parish after a pastoral assignment. \/ Credit: Diocese of Nsukka ACI Africa, Sep 23, 2025 \/ 14:12 pm (CNA). 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