{"id":87428,"date":"2026-04-06T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87428"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:31:11","slug":"soldiers-free-31-christians-after-armed-men-stormed-church-during-easter-sunday-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/soldiers-free-31-christians-after-armed-men-stormed-church-during-easter-sunday-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers free 31 Christians after armed men stormed church during Easter Sunday service"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA20gkex.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Soldiers confronted the attackers in an intense gun battle, the army stated, which compelled the armed group to abandon both their captives and the bodies of those killed | Source: REUTERS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian soldiers have freed 31 civilians after a group of armed men stormed a church during Easter worship in the country&#8217;s northwest region. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/soldiers-free-31-christians-after-armed-men-stormed-church-during-easter-sunday-service\/ar-AA20g4M6?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d3f5af498741ffb2fbea1abe812ad8&amp;ei=89\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nigerian soldiers have freed 31 civilians after a group of armed men stormed a church during Easter worship in the country&#8217;s northwest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Families-in-agony-Nigeria.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87429,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87428\/revisions\/87429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}