{"id":4623,"date":"2025-03-06T09:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T09:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2025-03-06T09:18:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T09:18:34","slug":"kaduna-catholic-priest-killed-days-after-kidnap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/03\/06\/kaduna-catholic-priest-killed-days-after-kidnap\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna Catholic Priest killed Days After Kidnap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan in Kaduna has confirmed the killing of a priest, Sylvester Okechukwu, a day after he was kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okechukwu, a reverend father, was the pastor of St Mary Catholic Church, Tachira, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna state, until his murder on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The church, in a statement signed by the Chancellor of the Diocese, Jacob Shanet, said Mr Okechukwu was killed in the early hours of Wednesday after being kidnapped from his residence on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter being taken by his abductors, we regret to inform you that Fr Sylvester was cruelly killed in the early hours of Wednesday, March 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is yet to be determined why he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis untimely and brutal loss has left us broken and devastated. He was always available and accessible to his parishioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis untimely death has left an indelible void within our diocesan family, and we share in the pain of his passing with his family, friends and all those who loved him,\u201d the church said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The church appealed to the community to remain calm and steadfast in prayer and to refrain from taking the law into their own hands.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan in Kaduna has confirmed the killing of a priest, Sylvester Okechukwu, a day after he was kidnapped. Mr Okechukwu, a reverend father, was the pastor of St Mary Catholic&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}