{"id":45639,"date":"2021-02-15T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T10:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/02\/15\/pope-francis-thanks-colombia-for-initiative-to-grant-venezuelan-migrants-legal-status\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T10:35:00","slug":"pope-francis-thanks-colombia-for-initiative-to-grant-venezuelan-migrants-legal-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/02\/15\/pope-francis-thanks-colombia-for-initiative-to-grant-venezuelan-migrants-legal-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis thanks Colombia for initiative to grant Venezuelan migrants legal status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dear brothers and sisters, good morning. The square is so beautiful with the sun! How beautiful!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His greeting was heartfelt. This was the second time in 2021 that Pope Francis prayed the Angelus with pilgrims. The weather was better than the first time. Pope Francis has felt the lack of contact between him and pilgrims throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>From a window of the apostolic palace he praised the president of Colombia\u2019s initiative to help immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Iv\u00e1n Duque proposed a statute to provide 10 years of protection so undocumented immigrants from Venezuela can obtain legal status. There are an estimated 1.7 million in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n <em>\u201cThis is not being done by a very rich, super developed country. No. It is being done by a country with many problems: of development, of poverty, of peace. Nearly 70 years of guerrilla war. But with this problem, they have had the courage to look at those migrants and make this statute. Thank you, Colombia. Thank you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope also said a few words about St. Valentine\u2019s Day, which was being celebrated worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n <em>\u201cAnd I cannot fail today, on St. Valentine\u2019s Day, to extend a thought and greeting to couples, to those who are in love. I accompany you with my prayer, and I bless you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before concluding, the pope reminded the faithful that Lent begins this Wednesday. He suggested taking advantage of this time to foster faith and hope during the current crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Romero<\/p>\n<p>Translation: CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 15,2021. \u201cThis is not being done by a very rich, super developed country. No. It is being done by a country with many problems,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Po4Z69pl9CU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus1402eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus1402int.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639"}],"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=45639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}