{"id":5343,"date":"2017-02-10T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2017-02-10T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T15:08:52","slug":"south-sudan-bishop-asks-for-justice-over-the-murder-of-sister-veronica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/10\/south-sudan-bishop-asks-for-justice-over-the-murder-of-sister-veronica\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH SUDAN: Bishop asks for Justice over the murder of Sister Veronica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Yei questions government silence over the murder of Sister Veronica Rackova by SPLA last year. Bishop Erkolano Lodu Tombe says late Sister Veronica\u2019s relatives are asking why up to now justice has not prevailed, Radio Easter reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bishop is calling for justice over the brutal murder of Sister Veronica.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5344\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5344\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Late-Sr.-Veronica-attending.jpg\" alt=\"The Late Sr. Veronica attending  to her patients in Yei\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 8pt;\"><em><strong>The Late Sr. Veronica attending<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 8pt;\"><em><strong>to her patients in Yei<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The late Sr. Veronica was shot while on medical duty on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> of June 2015. She died shortly in Nairobi, Kenya while receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishop Lodu asked President Salva Kiir\u2019s Government why it has remained silent over the murder amidst earlier reports of arrests and ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The late Sr. Veronica was until her untimely death the Medical Director of St Bakhita Health Center of the Catholic Diocese of Yei. She belonged to Missionary Sisters of the Holy Spirit (SSPS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u223d<em>End<\/em>\u223d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Source: CRN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Yei questions government silence over the murder of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}