{"id":32308,"date":"2017-02-03T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/huye-gangs-beat-up-worshippers\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T03:18:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T03:18:40","slug":"huye-gangs-beat-up-worshippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/huye-gangs-beat-up-worshippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Huye gangs beat up worshippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A group of unidentified thugs equipped with spears, machetes and big sticks last  night raided ADEPR church of Ngoma in Ngoma village of Taba parish , Huye district where they stabbed seven Christians who were praying along with other residents who intervened for help. } <\/p>\n<p>The incident follows a recent one where more than six ADEPR Christians in the region were severely beaten on Wednesday last week leaving one of the victims in coma.<br \/>\nThe bishop of Taba parish ,pastor Habinshuti Samson has told IGIHE that \u201c Thugs with machetes entered the church as the  Christians were praying and said \u2018If your God does miracles, let\u2019s see whether He can save you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The guard at the church Sebakungu Phillippe has told IGIHE that the raid was carried at 23:00 hours. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c Around 23:00 hours, more than 10 people equipped with small hoes ,machetes,spears and big sticks raided the church. I tried to stop them as they followed worshipers who returned from short call when they immediately hit me with a big stick on the shoulders,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Sebakungu explained that he run to call for help from neighbours who were also hit as they arrived. <\/p>\n<p>It is said that the raiders had bottles of alcoholic drinks and smoked tobacco. <\/p>\n<p>Security personnel and officials in the region have this morning held a meeting with residents to investigate masterminds of the raid. <\/p>\n<p>The victims who were severely injured have been taken to University Teaching Hospital of Butare (CHUB).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18004 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1477-93c8f.jpg\" alt=\"Security personnel and officials in the region have this morning held a meeting with residents to investigate masterminds of the raid.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18005 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5fad8366-9103-4d9e-9c7b-cdc877274360-90fe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18003 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-1108-55a72.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A group of unidentified thugs equipped with spears, machetes and big sticks last night raided ADEPR church of Ngoma in Ngoma village of Taba parish , Huye district where they stabbed seven Christians who were praying along with other residents who intervened for help. } The incident follows a recent one where more than six [&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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32308","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=32308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32308"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32308"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}