{"id":17196,"date":"2025-10-26T01:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=17196"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:05:46","slug":"woman-found-slain-inside-church-in-cebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/10\/26\/woman-found-slain-inside-church-in-cebu\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMAN FOUND SLAIN INSIDE CHURCH IN CEBU  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE Archdiocese of Cebu has ordered the temporary closure of the Parish Church of San Fernando Rey in Liloan municipality after a woman was found murdered inside the church premises.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Archbishop Alberto S. Uy, the incident constituted a desecration of a holy place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All public masses and religious activities were suspended until a rite of reparation is held to restore the sanctity of the church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe unite in prayer for the victim\u2019s family as we condemn in the strongest terms this act of violence committed within the very house of God,\u201d Uy said in a statement issued Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An investigation showed around 9:30 a.m. Friday, church personnel found the woman lying unconscious near the entrance of the church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The woman, believed to be around 30 years old, was rushed to the nearby Danao City District Hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival by an attending physician.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police said the woman sustained head injuries and ligature marks on the neck, indications she was beaten and possibly strangled before she died.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authorities are investigating the identity of the victim and the motive for the killing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The incident that shaken parishioners and residents of Liloan prompted the implementation of tighter security measures around churches in the province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Archdiocese of Cebu has ordered the temporary closure of the Parish Church of San Fernando Rey in Liloan municipality after a woman was found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17198,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17196\/revisions\/17198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}