{"id":135134,"date":"2020-09-03T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=135134&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:41:01","slug":"nagasaki-catholic-priest-misappropriated-%c2%a5250-million","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/nagasaki-catholic-priest-misappropriated-%c2%a5250-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagasaki Catholic Priest Misappropriated \u00a5250 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Catholic Church Archdiocese of Nagasaki announced that a priest misappropriated approximately \u00a5250 million of its funds in 2013. In his fifties, the priest was in charge of accounting when he invested the money into international projects without asking for the archbishop&#8217;s permission. The church has collected only \u00a518 million so far and intends to continue requesting refunds from the person who promoted the investments. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankei.com\/west\/news\/200901\/wst2009010032-n1.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sankei<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-135135\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/church.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/church.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/church.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/church.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/church.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Photo credit: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ume-y\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ume-y<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Church Archdiocese of Nagasaki announced that a priest misappropriated approximately \u00a5250 million of its funds in 2013. In his fifties, the priest was in charge of accounting when he invested the money into international projects without asking for the archbishop&#8217;s permission. The church has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":135135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-135134","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-nagasaki-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/135134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}