{"id":3686,"date":"2026-10-29T19:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/so-this-happened-ep-439-pastors-polygamous-marriage-sparks-controversy-amid-abuse-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T19:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:33:54","slug":"so-this-happened-ep-439-pastors-polygamous-marriage-sparks-controversy-amid-abuse-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/so-this-happened-ep-439-pastors-polygamous-marriage-sparks-controversy-amid-abuse-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"So This Happened (EP 439): Pastor\u2019s polygamous marriage sparks controversy amid abuse allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34.784503631961\">\n<p>An Ohio pastor, Israel Ford, has defended his polygamous marriage after his wife introduced another woman as his second wife during a church service. The controversy has drawn further attention because of a past domestic-violence conviction involving his stepdaughter and separate sexual-abuse allegations made by another daughter, which he and his wife deny. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, a dispute involving three-year-old footballer Nevada Pierre at a Florida children\u2019s match has sparked debate after police were called. Although no arrests were made, the incident has reportedly opened up new football development opportunities for the young player.\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#87f3efe2e2e3eef3e8f5c7f7f2e9e4efe9e0a9e4e8ea\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"6a1e020f0f0e031e05182a1a1f040902040d44090507\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ohio pastor, Israel Ford, has defended his polygamous marriage after his wife introduced another woman as his second wife during a church service. The controversy has drawn further attention&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}