{"id":7501,"date":"2017-06-17T20:16:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T20:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2018-10-12T20:18:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T20:18:36","slug":"eyn-loses-five-church-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2017\/eyn-loses-five-church-members\/","title":{"rendered":"EYN loses five church members in Boko Haram attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Church of the Brethren Newsline<br \/>\nJune\u00a017,\u00a02017<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By Zakariya Musa<\/p>\n<p>Five members of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) were killed in a recent Boko Haram attack in Adamawa State. Reporting the incident happened in a no-network area of Adamawa State, EYN district church secretary Mildlu Rev. Bitrus Kabu said Wakara Village was attacked from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, June 8.<\/p>\n<p>He said five men were killed by the attackers, and the attack came as a surprise because they have experienced relative peace for some months in the area. \u201cWe buried all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers went away with some food items, motorcycles, and other things, leaving the village unoccupied as people fled for their lives to other places for refuge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\u00a0<em>Zakariya Musa is on the communications staff of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/Newsline\">www.brethren.org\/Newsline<\/a>\u00a0to subscribe to the Church of the Brethren Newsline free e-mail news service and receive church news every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five members of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) were killed in a recent Boko Haram attack in Adamawa State. Reporting the incident happened in a no-network area of Adamawa State, EYN district church secretary Mildlu Rev. Bitrus Kabu said Wakara Village was attacked from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, June 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[456,13],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-nigeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}