The Vatican is celebrating Christmas in style. <\/p>\n
In its thirtieth edition, the Vatican Christmas Concert for Peace is bringing artists from Italy, France, Spain, Israel, the United States and Sweden to Rome. <\/p>\n
The money raised from the concert will go to support Don Bosco missions in Ukraine. <\/p>\n
Also present in this year's concert are the winners from this year's Christmas Contest, which invited young artists from 16 to 35 years old to compete for a chance to perform among the stars at the Vatican's Christmas Concert. <\/p>\n
Pope Francis addressed the organizers of the contest in October, and told them to not lose sight of Christmas' meaning. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS Pope Francis typically meets the performers before the the big show, which in past years have included stars such as Lionel Richie and Patti Smith. <\/p>\n This year the concert will feature Spanish artist Jos\u00e9 Carreras and Amy Lee of the rock band Evanescence.<\/p>\n JM<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year the concert will feature Spanish artist Jos\u00e9 Carreras and Amy Lee of the rock band Evanescence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VAV8bqx_LEg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwconcertonataleeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwconcertonataleint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43104"}],"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=43104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Don't seek to be like the big \u201cstars\u201d of show business. Don't follow the trends and designs of success. Don't recite the clich\u00e9s of a false and corny Christmas that has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem and its significance for humanity today.<\/em><\/p>\n