{"id":84189,"date":"2026-07-08T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84189"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:22:25","slug":"catholic-priest-killed-in-central-african-republic-remembered-as-a-messenger-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/catholic-priest-killed-in-central-african-republic-remembered-as-a-messenger-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Priest Killed In Central African Republic Remembered As A Messenger Of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>OSV News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.osvnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/usethis20260707T1322-CENTRAL-AFRICAN-REPUBLIC-PRIEST-KILLED-1823179.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Catholic priest working for peace and reconciliation in the Central African Republic was killed by armed men near his residence in the town of Zemio on June 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Father Crepin Martial Monga, vicar of St. John the Baptist Catholic Parish in Z\u00e9mio, in southeastern Central African Republic, or CAR, was shot in the head on a road leading to his residence in Zemio in Haut-Mbomou prefecture, which is in the southeastern part of the country.\u00a0 Although the details of murder remain scarce, Church sources suspect the killing was intentional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From OSV News: A Catholic priest working for peace and reconciliation in the Central African Republic was killed by armed.<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84189","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=84189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84190,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84189\/revisions\/84190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}