{"id":222427,"date":"2026-01-31T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-pastor-chris-okafor-recounts-58-day-kidnap-ordeal-credits-survival-to-gods-grace\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:43:57","slug":"nigeria-pastor-chris-okafor-recounts-58-day-kidnap-ordeal-credits-survival-to-gods-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-pastor-chris-okafor-recounts-58-day-kidnap-ordeal-credits-survival-to-gods-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Pastor Chris Okafor Recounts 58-Day Kidnap Ordeal, Credits Survival to God&#8217;s Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The founder of Grace Nation International, Pastor Chris Okafor, has narrated his abduction by kidnappers alongside his personal assistant in 2012, describing the experience as a life-threatening ordeal he survived by divine intervention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Okafor spoke on Thursday during a pres conference at the church&#8217;s headquarters in Lagos, where he recounted how the incident occurred after a series of evangelistic crusades across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">According to him, the abduction followed the conclusion of a crusade&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601300413.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>The founder of Grace Nation International, Pastor Chris Okafor, has narrated his abduction by kidnappers alongside his personal assistant in 2012, describing the experience as a life-threatening ordeal he survived by divine intervention. Okafor spoke on Thursday during a pres conference at the church&#8217;s headquarters in Lagos, where he recounted how the incident occurred after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222428,"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":[249],"tags":[53537,258,256,9124,27388,15589,6963,10277,257,4687,393,19755,15112,7582,7218,254,15938],"class_list":["post-222427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-58day","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chris","tag-credits","tag-gods","tag-grace","tag-kidnap","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-okafor","tag-ordeal","tag-pastor","tag-recounts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survival"],"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\/222427","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=222427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}