{"id":42952,"date":"2023-01-26T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2023\/01\/26\/japanese-ambassador-gives-pope-gifts-with-symbols-used-by-persecuted-christians\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:51:00","slug":"japanese-ambassador-gives-pope-gifts-with-symbols-used-by-persecuted-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2023\/01\/26\/japanese-ambassador-gives-pope-gifts-with-symbols-used-by-persecuted-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese ambassador gives Pope gifts with symbols used by persecuted Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>These are my credentials from His Majesty, the Emperor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis received the credentials of Akira Chiba, the new Ambassador of Japan to the Holy See.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador's son and wife accompanied him on the visit and his wife wore a traditional kimono.<\/p>\n<p>The new ambassador presented Pope Francis with two music boxes, that play an Italian song called 'O Notte Santa' when opened. The varnish that covers them was made in Fukushima, a city Pope Francis visited in 2019. This type of craftsmanship was developed by Gamou Ujisato, a Catholic feudal lord, at the end of the 16th century.<\/p>\n<p><em>The peony represents Jesus Christ according to the tradition of persecuted Japanese Christians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As is customary, Pope Francis presented the ambassador with the medal celebrating his tenth anniversary as pope and some of his main texts on the environment and human fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>RM<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This type of craftsmanship was developed by Gamou Ujisato, a Catholic feudal lord, at the end of the 16th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jcQSRn3bO50","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bambasciatoregiapponeeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bambasciatoregiapponeint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}