{"id":50335,"date":"2017-09-12T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/09\/12\/father-tom-uzhunnalil-freed-after-being-held-captive-for-18-months\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T10:56:02","slug":"father-tom-uzhunnalil-freed-after-being-held-captive-for-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/09\/12\/father-tom-uzhunnalil-freed-after-being-held-captive-for-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Tom Uzhunnalil freed after being held captive for 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian priest Tom Uzhunnalil has been freed after being held captive for almost 18 months by a guerrilla group in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Shushma Swaraj, Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced it on her Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to announce that Father Tom Unzhunnalil has been freed,\u201d her message read.<\/p>\n<p>Father Tom was kidnapped on March 4, 2016 when a terrorist group attacked an elderly home in Yemen, assassinating sixteen people in the process, four of whom were clergy.<\/p>\n<p>Last Christmas, his kidnappers published a video in which the priest asked for help from the pope, bishops and the Indian government.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shushma Swaraj, India\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, was the first to confirm it, via Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gHCS6wuSm_o","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50335"}],"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=50335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}