{"id":79121,"date":"2025-11-21T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79121"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T10:02:59","slug":"archdiocese-debunks-rumoured-death-of-abducted-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/21\/archdiocese-debunks-rumoured-death-of-abducted-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Archdiocese Debunks Rumoured Death of Abducted Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Archdiocese has dismissed viral social-media claims that abducted priest, Rev. Fr. Bobbo Paschal, has been killed, describing the rumours as false and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on November 20, 2025, the Office of the Chancellor confirmed that Fr. Paschal is alive and that security agencies are continuing efforts to secure his safe release.<\/p>\n<p>The Archdiocese cautioned the public and social-media users against spreading unverified reports, noting that such misinformation causes panic, distress to the priest\u2019s family, and could jeopardise ongoing rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>It expressed appreciation for the prayers and support of the faithful and urged continued intercession for Fr. Paschal and others still in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, signed by Rev. Fr. Christian Okewu Emmanuel, advised the public to rely only on official Archdiocesan communication for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Archdiocese has dismissed viral social-media claims that abducted priest, Rev. Fr. Bobbo Paschal, has been killed, describing the rumours as false and misleading. In a statement issued on November 20, 2025, the Office of the Chancellor confirmed that Fr. Paschal is alive and that security agencies are continuing efforts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172,1681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79123,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79121\/revisions\/79123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}