{"id":763,"date":"2010-04-14T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-04-14T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:10:12","slug":"nigeria-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why the outbreak of violence in Northern Nigeria? A Nigerian Anglican archbishop says it  is the result of Muslims becoming Christians, resulting in the <strong>formation of 49 new  dioceses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rt Rev. Edmund Akanya says outreach to Muslims,  animists, and pagans with the gospel is \u201csecond nature\u201d to Nigerian Anglicans  and that Anglicans \u201cface this challenge every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop also said that \u201cnews media stories only  tell the ugly side of Nigerian violence, but it is <strong>not the whole story<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akanya said one method of evangelism is building bridges  of friendship. \u201cDespite attacks and killings we keep building friendships and  extending the love of Christ. We carry on despite the enmity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago 5-7% of the population was Christians,  now <strong>30% of the people in northern  Nigeria are  Christian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtueonline.org\/portal\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=12391\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the outbreak of violence in Northern Nigeria? A Nigerian Anglican archbishop says it is the result of Muslims becoming Christians, resulting in the formation of 49 new dioceses. The Rt Rev. Edmund Akanya says outreach to Muslims, animists, and pagans with the gospel is \u201csecond nature\u201d to Nigerian Anglicans and that Anglicans \u201cface this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}