{"id":50523,"date":"2026-06-20T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50523"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T10:46:49","slug":"the-sacred-catholic-site-where-trump-wants-a-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=50523","title":{"rendered":"The Sacred Catholic Site Where Trump Wants a Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: The Sacred Catholic Site Where Trump Wants a Border Wall<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">The Trump administration is trying to seize the land around Mount Cristo Rey, a sacred site of Catholic pilgrimages, in order to build a border wall on it. The Times reporter Reis Thebault takes us up the mountain to see the 30-foot statue of Jesus at the top, and the border wall below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Reis Thebault, Christina Shaman, Jon Miller, June Kim and Melanie Bencosme<\/p>\n<p>June 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: The Sacred Catholic Site Where Trump Wants a Border Wall The Trump administration is trying to seize the land around Mount Cristo Rey, a sacred site of Catholic pilgrimages, in order to build a border wall on it. The Times reporter Reis Thebault takes us up the mountain to see the 30-foot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3827,11069,11927,1068,81,2339],"class_list":{"0":"post-50523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-border","9":"tag-catholic","10":"tag-sacred","11":"tag-site","12":"tag-trump","13":"tag-wall"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}