{"id":11135,"date":"2017-10-15T14:10:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T14:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=11135"},"modified":"2017-10-15T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T14:10:21","slug":"prayer-need-priest-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/prayer-need-priest-kidnapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Need: Priest Kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>From IBT:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>An Italian priest has been kidnapped at gunpoint in southern Nigeria, Vatican officials have said. Maurizio Pallu was abducted while travelling with four others in Benin City on Thursday 12 October.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>The 63-year-old, who has worked in the country for the past three years, was taken by armed men after they attacked and robbed the group. Pallu was the only person kidnapped, with the others let go.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong> <span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/vatican-says-pope-francis-praying-italian-priest-kidnapped-by-gunmen-nigerias-benin-city-1643173\">For Full Story<\/a><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1508076621\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Prayer Need: Priest Kidnapped\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From IBT: An Italian priest has been kidnapped at gunpoint in southern Nigeria, Vatican officials have said. Maurizio Pallu was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}