{"id":255063,"date":"2018-06-05T17:53:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T21:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=255063"},"modified":"2021-04-18T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:00:59","slug":"crocodile-kills-ethiopian-pastor-during-lake-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/crocodile-kills-ethiopian-pastor-during-lake-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile kills Ethiopian pastor during lake baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>God\u2019s protection failure\u2026 anybody else willing to be baptized? lol<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town&#8217;s Merkeb Tabya district.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and police told BBC Amharic a crocodile leapt from the water during the baptism and attacked him.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Docho died after being bitten on his legs, back and hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He baptised the first person and he passed on to another one. All of a sudden, a crocodile jumped out of the lake and grabbed the pastor,&#8221; local resident Ketema Kairo told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Despite huge efforts, fishermen and residents could not save pastor Docho, policeman Eiwnetu Kanko said.<\/p>\n<p>They used fishing nets to prevent the crocodile from taking the pastor&#8217;s body into the lake.<\/p>\n<p>The crocodile escaped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-44366360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-44366360<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: God\u2019s protection failure\u2026 anybody else willing to be baptized? lol &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":328085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}