{"id":12875,"date":"2019-05-13T04:17:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T04:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/burkina-faso-church-attack-priest-among-six-killed\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T14:31:45","slug":"burkina-faso-third-attack-on-churches-in-5-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/burkina-faso-third-attack-on-churches-in-5-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso Third Attack On Churches In 5 Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Islamic Terrorist Gunmen have attacked a Church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, killing six, one of whom was the resident Priest. This is the 3rd attack on churches in five weeks and is most probably the work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/resources\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/uv.html\">Ansarul Islam<\/a>, who has a record of going after civilian targets in the Northern area of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers said to have numbered between 20 and 30,\u00a0 burned down the church and several other buildings and looted a health centre.<\/p>\n<p>The area is becoming quite unstable with the number of extremist attacks are on the rise in the area as the terrorists seek to establish an Islamic state, and this comes on the heels of a daring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/french-hostages-praise-rescue-from-hell-in-burkina-faso\/\">French Special Forces<\/a> raid to rescue hostages last week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12922\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12922\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Burkina-Faso-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Burkina-Faso-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Burkina-Faso-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Burkina-Faso-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Burkina-Faso-1-750x499.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Burkina-Faso-1-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Burkina-Faso-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burkina Faso remains one of Africas poorest countries with a Nominal GDP Per Capita of $663.80<br \/>Image:MattLphotography\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic Terrorist Gunmen have attacked a Church in Dablo in northern Burkina Faso, killing six, one of whom was the resident Priest. This is the 3rd attack on churches in five weeks and is most probably the work of Ansarul Islam, who has a record of going after civilian targets in the Northern area of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1206],"class_list":["post-12875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-burkina-faso"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12923,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875\/revisions\/12923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}