{"id":44199,"date":"2022-02-21T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/02\/21\/pope-francis-praises-healthcare-professionals-for-heroic-work-during-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:58:00","slug":"pope-francis-praises-healthcare-professionals-for-heroic-work-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/02\/21\/pope-francis-praises-healthcare-professionals-for-heroic-work-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis praises healthcare professionals for \u201cheroic\u201d work during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flags at Pope Francis' Sunday Angelus are becoming increasingly diverse as pilgrims return to Rome. This week they included several from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>On Italy's National Day for Healthcare Professionals, the Pope shared an instance of the small yet heroic gestures healthcare workers perform to show their closeness to their patients.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>'A doctor told me this morning that in the time of Covid, a person was dying and said to him, \u201cHold my hand. I am dying, and I need your hand.\u201d The heroic healthcare professionals showed this heroism in the time of Covid, but the heroism remains there every day. A round of applause and a big \u201cthank you\u201d to our doctors, nurses, and volunteers!'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pope also prayed for those affected by the deadly mudslides and flooding near Rio de Janiero, Brazil, and for Madagascar where a cyclone is expected to touch down in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>'May the Lord receive th victims in his peace, console their relatives and support those who come to their aid.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pope then greeted pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square from around the world, including a large group from cities across Spain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 21, 2022. The Pope shared an instance of the small yet heroic gestures healthcare workers perform to show their closeness to their patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UjayVrD3cl0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus2002eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus2002int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44199"}],"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=44199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}