{"id":214805,"date":"2025-11-25T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-vatican-leo-xiv-great-pain-and-deeply-saddened-to-learn-of-the-kidnapping-of-priests-faithful-and-students-in-nigeria-and-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:34:12","slug":"cameroon-vatican-leo-xiv-great-pain-and-deeply-saddened-to-learn-of-the-kidnapping-of-priests-faithful-and-students-in-nigeria-and-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-vatican-leo-xiv-great-pain-and-deeply-saddened-to-learn-of-the-kidnapping-of-priests-faithful-and-students-in-nigeria-and-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Vatican &#8211; Leo Xiv &#8211; &#8216;Great Pain&#8217; and &#8216;Deeply Saddened&#8217; to Learn of the Kidnapping of Priests, Faithful, and Students in Nigeria and Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"82\">Vatican City \u2014 &#8220;I was deeply saddened to learn of the kidnapping of priests, faithful, and students in Nigeria and Cameroon. I feel great pain, above all for the many young men and women who have been abducted and for their distressed families.&#8221; Thus, today, Sunday, November 23, Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness and personal sympathy for the anguish and distress of families and ecclesial communities that in recent days have been affected by a shocking series of mass kidnappings in Nigeria and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240719.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican City \u2014 &#8220;I was deeply saddened to learn of the kidnapping of priests, faithful, and students in Nigeria and Cameroon. I feel great pain, above all for the many young men and women who have been abducted and for their distressed families.&#8221; Thus, today, Sunday, November 23, Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,10914,7426,8273,1457,8334,37960,257,4687,22461,21428,23222,254,6695,29083,52954],"class_list":["post-214805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-deeply","tag-faithful","tag-great","tag-kidnapping","tag-learn","tag-leo","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-pain","tag-priests","tag-saddened","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students","tag-vatican","tag-xiv"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/214805","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=214805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}