The pope met with Pierluigi Maccalli, the missionary who was kidnapped in Niger in 2018 and set free in Mali last month. It was a very emotional meeting.<\/p>\n
For the past two years, these people held a daily prayer vigil for the priest. This is how they reacted to his liberation.<\/p>\n
It was nighttime, but we rang the bells. It felt like Easter.<\/p>\n
During these two years, the pope followed the missionary's situation closely.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> The missionary recounted how last June, his kidnappers gave him a radio and the excitement he felt when he heard this pope's celebration on Pentecost.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Now that he's a free man, they were able to pray together at the Vatican. This was the missionary's reaction to the pope's blessing.<\/p>\n JMB<\/p>\n Translation: CT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 9, 2020. Pierluigi Maccalli was freed a month ago in Mali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mrEO2asD2gw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpadremaccallieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpadremaccalliint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46032"}],"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=46032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cI would like to join you in praying for your brother, Pierluigi Maccalli, kidnapped several months ago in Niger.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u201cIf we see Him as a God who takes things away, who imposes Himself, we will also want to impose ourselves: taking up spaces, claiming importance, seeking power. However, if in our hearts we have a God who is gift, everything changes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n