{"id":199062,"date":"2025-11-25T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199062\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:58:12","slug":"these-are-tiny-children-irish-nun-in-nigeria-pleads-for-irish-governments-help-after-315-pupils-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199062\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018These are tiny children\u2019 \u2013 Irish nun in Nigeria pleads for Irish Government\u2019s help after 315 pupils kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Sr Mary Barron says a \u2018concerted\u2019 effort can locate the missing children, after 50 managed to escape their armed captors\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Children's belongings left behind at the St Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri community in Nigeria. Photo: AP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NIGERIA A (12).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Children&#8217;s belongings left behind at the St Mary&#8217;s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri community in Nigeria. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An Irish nun who heads the religious congregation that runs the African school from which 315 children and staff were kidnapped has begged the Irish Government to pressure Nigeria to put more resources into rescuing them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sr Mary Barron said that some of the children seized at gunpoint were of primary-school age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sr Mary Barron says a \u2018concerted\u2019 effort can locate the missing children, after 50 managed to escape their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,14370,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-199062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-helen-mcentee","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115609515303450252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}