{"id":84774,"date":"2026-07-23T17:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84774"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:51:59","slug":"two-nuns-six-priests-reportedly-killed-following-drone-strike-on-ancient-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/two-nuns-six-priests-reportedly-killed-following-drone-strike-on-ancient-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Nuns, Six Priests Reportedly Killed Following Drone Strike On Ancient Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Borkena<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Arsema-Monastery-_-Ethiopia-News-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"Arsema Monastery Drone attack _ Orthodox _ Ethiopian News \" width=\"390\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethiopian Defense Force Reportedly carried out a drone strike targeting Ancient Monastery in Wollo in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two nuns and six priests were killed in the attack on Arsema Monastery in Mekane Selam, Wollo.\u00a0 They died on the scene. Dozens were wounded, the number was not immediately specified.\u00a0\u00a0An Ethiopian Orthodox insider reported that the incident took place on Wednesday around 10:30 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Borkena: Ethiopian Defense Force Reportedly carried out a drone strike targeting Ancient Monastery in Wollo in the Amhara region.<\/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-84774","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\/84774","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=84774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}