{"id":124171,"date":"2017-10-16T02:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=124171"},"modified":"2017-10-16T02:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:09:29","slug":"prelate-marawi-conflict-near-end-with-death-of-top-terror-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/16\/prelate-marawi-conflict-near-end-with-death-of-top-terror-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelate: Marawi conflict near end with death of top terror leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112167\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112167\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5019.jpg\" alt=\"Marawi Bishop Edwin dela Pena (PNA Photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5019.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_5019-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Marawi Bishop Edwin dela Pena (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The head of the Prelature of Marawi believes the reported death of terrorist leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute will pave the way to the end of the conflict in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrumbling leadership signals the beginning of the end,\u201d said Marawi City Bishop Edwin dela Pe\u00f1a in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the Catholic prelate admitted that he is feel grateful with the development of the situation in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m beginning to feel relieved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed reports from ground commanders claiming the death of Hapilon and Maute.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting in Marawi City erupted between when government forces tried to arrest Hapilon who was declared as the &#8217;emir&#8217; of the terror group ISIS in Southeast Asia last May 23.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law in Mindanao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The head of the Prelature of Marawi believes the reported death of terrorist leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[12748,27995,14357,27993,27994],"class_list":["post-124171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-delfin-lorenzana","tag-edwin-dela-pena","tag-isnilon-hapilon","tag-omar-maute","tag-prelature-of-marawi","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}