{"id":45247,"date":"2021-05-27T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/05\/27\/pope-francis-meets-with-presidents-of-bulgaria-and-north-macedonia\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:15:00","slug":"pope-francis-meets-with-presidents-of-bulgaria-and-north-macedonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/05\/27\/pope-francis-meets-with-presidents-of-bulgaria-and-north-macedonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis meets with presidents of Bulgaria and North Macedonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is keeping a busy schedule which included meeting with two presidents in the same day. In the morning he received the president of Bulgaria, Rumen Georgiv Radev.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The small European country has held diplomatic relations with the Holy See since 1990.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After meeting privately with the Pope, he gave him this Marian icon handmade in Bulgaria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Pope Francis gave him his message of peace along with this mosaic.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>-'It's a mosaic made by our workers'.<br \/>\n-'It's the shape of St. Peter's and you can even see the dome'.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-'And this is an entire library'.<br \/>\n-'When you can't sleep just take one and then you'll fall asleep immediately'.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Later in the day he met with the President of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski. The country has held diplomatic ties with the Holy See since 1994.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 Macedonia reported some 15,000 Catholics, comprising less that 1% of the population, since most Macedonians belong to the Macedonian Orthodox Church.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The President gave the Pope this icon made of semi-precious stone, books, and this jersey of the country's national soccer team.<\/p>\n<p><em>-'It says Pope Francis'.<br \/>\n-'It is written in Cyrillic'. <br \/>\n-'The President asks His Holiness to add Macedonia to his prayers during the European Championships this summer'. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In return the Pope gave him this mosaic of St. Peter's featuring the dome of the basilica, as well as the significant texts of his pontificate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel D\u00edaz Vizzi<\/p>\n<p>TR: Justin McLellan<\/p>\n<p>RR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 27, 2021. The Pope is keeping busy schedule which included meeting two presidents in the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pErEKHsWzcw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbulgariaemacedoniaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbulgariaemacedoniaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45247"}],"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=45247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}