{"id":232120,"date":"2026-05-02T03:35:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-anglican-church-suspends-anambra-priest-over-alleged-staged-miracles\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:35:33","slug":"nigeria-anglican-church-suspends-anambra-priest-over-alleged-staged-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-anglican-church-suspends-anambra-priest-over-alleged-staged-miracles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Anglican Church Suspends Anambra Priest Over Alleged Staged Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has suspended Reverend Ifunaya Maduka as Vicar of St Paul&#8217;s Parish, Nteje, in the Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, over allegations of fake miracles and staged prophecies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Maduka was handed a six-month suspension without salary following accusations of engaging in &#8220;practices grossly unbecoming&#8221; of a priest ordained in the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The church, led by the Bishop on the Niger, Rt. Rev. Owen Nwokolo, alleged that the cleric carried out&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010288.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 Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has suspended Reverend Ifunaya Maduka as Vicar of St Paul&#8217;s Parish, Nteje, in the Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, over allegations of fake miracles and staged prophecies. Maduka was handed a six-month suspension without salary following accusations of engaging in &#8220;practices grossly unbecoming&#8221; of a priest ordained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232121,"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":[258,256,4305,12904,27569,6581,31207,257,4687,393,16224,254,13459,10452],"class_list":["post-232120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-anambra","tag-anglican","tag-church","tag-miracles","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-priest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staged","tag-suspends"],"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\/232120","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=232120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}