{"id":187851,"date":"2025-01-04T01:17:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-trending-catholic-priest-arrested-for-shooting-boy-dead-in-south-east-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T01:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:17:39","slug":"nigeria-trending-catholic-priest-arrested-for-shooting-boy-dead-in-south-east-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-trending-catholic-priest-arrested-for-shooting-boy-dead-in-south-east-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Trending &#8211; Catholic Priest Arrested for Shooting Boy Dead in South-East Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Premium Times gathered that the incident happened during a Holy Mass celebration to mark the crossover to the New Year 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A Nigerian Catholic priest has allegedly shot a boy dead after the latter set off firecrackers within a church premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">PREMIUM TIMES learned that the incident happened during a Holy Mass celebration, marking the crossover to the New Year 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Sources told this newspaper that the Holy Mass was conducted at St. Colombus Parish Amaimo, a community in Ikeduru Local Government&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501030403.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premium Times gathered that the incident happened during a Holy Mass celebration to mark the crossover to the New Year 2025. A Nigerian Catholic priest has allegedly shot a boy dead after the latter set off firecrackers within a church premises. PREMIUM TIMES learned that the incident happened during a Holy Mass celebration, marking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4304,7654,10991,8096,257,4687,393,16224,6855,254,14446,14729],"class_list":["post-187851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-boy","tag-catholic","tag-dead","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-priest","tag-shooting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southeast","tag-trending"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}