{"id":32213,"date":"2017-01-31T01:56:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T01:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/benin-anti-voodoo-sect-members-die-of\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T01:56:10","slug":"benin-anti-voodoo-sect-members-die-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/benin-anti-voodoo-sect-members-die-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin anti-voodoo sect members die of asphyxiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Five members of a Benin religious sect have died of asphyxiation after they were reportedly told to burn incense and charcoal in locked prayer rooms as they waited for the world to end.}<\/p>\n<p>Several people were taken to hospital after the weekend incident in Adjarra town, near the capital Porto Novo.<\/p>\n<p>The Very Holy Church of Jesus Christ of Baname sect opposes the voodoo religion &#8211; one of the major faiths in Benin.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the controversial sect have clashed with followers of other faiths.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s young leader, Vicentia Chanvoukini, known by her followers as &#8220;Lady Perfect&#8221;, has proclaimed herself a god.<\/p>\n<p>About 40% of the population of the West African nation are believed to be following voodoo.<\/p>\n<p>Voodoo Day is a public holiday and there is a national Voodoo museum.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17925 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_93878357_df3eea6e-fd9e-4475-b2d0-bf356e0fd4db.jpg\" alt=\"Several sect members have been taken to hospital\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Five members of a Benin religious sect have died of asphyxiation after they were reportedly told to burn incense and charcoal in locked prayer rooms as they waited for the world to end.} Several people were taken to hospital after the weekend incident in Adjarra town, near the capital Porto Novo. The Very Holy Church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32213"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32213"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}