{"id":46804,"date":"2020-04-02T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2020\/04\/02\/in-april-pope-francis-prays-for-those-caught-in-addition\/"},"modified":"2020-04-02T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T15:00:00","slug":"in-april-pope-francis-prays-for-those-caught-in-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2020\/04\/02\/in-april-pope-francis-prays-for-those-caught-in-addition\/","title":{"rendered":"In April, Pope Francis prays for those caught in addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the month of April, Pope Francis asks prayers for those caught in the \u201cdrama of addiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says this includes gambling, pornography, browsing the internet too often, not to mention the \u201cdangers of virtual space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope prays that \u201csupported by the 'Gospel of Mercy' we can alleviate, care for and heal the suffering associated with new kinds of addiction.<\/p>\n<p>He recommends that those suffering from addition be \u201cproperly helped and accompanied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 23 million Americans over 12 years old battle a substance abuse disorder with either alcohol, illicit drugs, or prescription medications.<\/p>\n<p>There are around 247 million drug users worldwide, numbers that count as an epidemic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2, 2020. The pope mentions gambling, pornography, browsing the internet too often, and the \u201cdangers of virtual space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":46805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MvrvY7-MdjI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/EN-ThePopeVideo-addictions.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/INT-ThePopeVideo-addictions.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46804"}],"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=46804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}