{"id":87570,"date":"2026-10-19T17:36:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87570"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:39:59","slug":"police-rescue-catholic-priest-seven-other-kidnap-victims-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/police-rescue-catholic-priest-seven-other-kidnap-victims-in-benue\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped Benue Catholic Priest, Fr. John Otache Rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Daily Post Nigeria:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/cms-api\/media\/file\/872134.jpg\" alt=\"872134\" width=\"390\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rev. Fr. John Inalegwu Otache, the Catholic priest abducted in Benue State, has reportedly regained his freedom following a rescue operation involving security operatives and local vigilantes.<\/p>\n<p>Otache, the Parish Priest of St. Margaret\u2019s Parish, Ajegbe-Awume, in Ohimini Local Government Area, was kidnapped on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, along the Otobi Amejo-Ajegbe Road while returning home from Otukpo.\u00a0 His abduction triggered anxiety among members of the Catholic Diocese of Otukpo and residents of neighbouring communities, prompting prayers and appeals for his safe release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daily Post Nigeria: Rev. Fr. John Inalegwu Otache, the Catholic priest abducted in Benue State, has reportedly regained his.<\/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":["post-87570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87570","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=87570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}