{"id":3341,"date":"2025-11-22T08:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zimbabweunited.com\/media-center\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:08:32","slug":"nigerian-persecution-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/nigerian-persecution-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Persecution Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bBDBm8yC-0E?si=N15HYE4DD2FndNV0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Brandon, CEO of Across Nigeria, is pushing back on the media narrative surrounding Christian persecution in Nigeria, explaining the intricacies of the issue and clarifying key points. &#8220;It is a persecution issue,&#8221; Brandon said. &#8220;I mean, you&#8217;ve got over 50,000 Christians that have been killed since 2009; 18,000 churches have been destroyed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he said there are &#8220;internally displaced persons camps&#8221; with millions of people being housed there. The majority of these individuals are Christian. &#8220;Their communities and their villages are being destroyed and they have nowhere else to go,&#8221; Brandon said. &#8220;So there is an issue of Christian persecution going on, no doubt. Christians are being targeted. They are second-class citizens all throughout northern Nigeria.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-africa-united-news","category-cbn-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agenda2026.com\/media-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}