{"id":48336,"date":"2019-02-18T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/02\/18\/salesian-missionary-murdered-in-burkina-faso\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:52:00","slug":"salesian-missionary-murdered-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/02\/18\/salesian-missionary-murdered-in-burkina-faso\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesian missionary murdered in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Spanish Salesian missionary Antonio C\u00e9sar Fern\u00e1ndez was shot dead on the afternoon of Feb. 15. He was killed in an ambush by a Jihadist group 25 miles from the country's southern border<\/strong>. Along with him, five others died.<\/p>\n<p>A few days earlier, Fr. Antonio made this video sharing how proud he was of his vocation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Salesian vocation is a grace of the Lord. A series of intertwined graces. So all I can say is that I have received many blessings from the Lord.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fr. Antonio C\u00e9sar was born in C\u00f3rdoba. He had been a missionary in Africa since 1982. He was director and parish priest in his community in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He was 72 years old, 55 of which he spent as a religious.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The congregation has received many messages lamenting the atrocious murder. Even the president of Spain expressed his condolences on Twitter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fr. Antonio C\u00e9sar joins many other martyrs of the Church. A man who dedicated his life to helping the most underprivileged in Africa, which he considered \u201cthe land of his dreams.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 18, 2019. Antonio C\u00e9sar Fern\u00e1ndez died on Feb. 15 in an ambush organized by the Jihadist group. He was 72 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":26171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/t2_6vzGEAjw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsalesianoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsalesianoint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}