{"id":70262,"date":"2024-08-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=70262"},"modified":"2024-08-07T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:11:31","slug":"one-texas-mayor-is-building-schools-for-christians-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2024\/08\/11\/one-texas-mayor-is-building-schools-for-christians-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"One Texas mayor is building schools for Christians in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More Christians are killed in Nigeria each year than everywhere else in the world combined. And one Texan decided to do what he could to help people facing this violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mayor of Blanco, Mike Arnold, began an organization called Africa Arise in 2019 to bring support\u2014both physical and spiritual\u2014to these Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MIKE ARNOLD<\/strong><br><strong>Founder, Africa Arise<br><\/strong><em>When they pick up their Bible to walk to church on a Sunday, they realize it might be the last thing they do. And they do it. That's amazing. That's where faith is put to the test.<br>Faith is real to them. They live it and they experience it in ways most don't because it's real to them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another pillar of Africa Arise is working to improve the lives of internally displaced children. And it began at the request of one woman who escaped to a shanty town after her village was massacred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MIKE ARNOLD<br>Founder, Africa Arise<\/strong><br><em>And they made it to this camp and they were told they had to stay there. And they had to build their own shanty, this woman with three kids. And I asked her, my heart went out to her, and I said, 'I wanna tell your story. And if people wanna respond, how can we help?' And I thought she'd say running water, lodging, a house, food, clothing, healthcare, sanitation, you name it. And she said one thing. She said, 'Help me teach these children.'<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From there, the organization founded two schools, offering classes to more than 500 full-time students. And they have broken ground on a third school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arnold says Africa Arise will continue to provide aid and education to the more than 5,000 children present in three camps in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Arise brings spiritual and physical support to hundreds of internally displaced children throughout Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":70259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,202],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kWKySwEek7o","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bafricaariseeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bafricaariseint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70262"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70264,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70262\/revisions\/70264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}