{"id":46930,"date":"2020-03-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2020\/03\/05\/in-march-pope-francis-asks-for-prayers-for-christian-unity-in-china\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:00:00","slug":"in-march-pope-francis-asks-for-prayers-for-christian-unity-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2020\/03\/05\/in-march-pope-francis-asks-for-prayers-for-christian-unity-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"In March, Pope Francis asks for prayers for Christian unity in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this month of March, Pope Francis proposes praying for Christians in China.<\/p>\n<p>In his video-message, he asks for prayers \u201cfor the Church in China to persevere in fidelity to the Gospel and to grow in unity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis says \u201cthe Church wants Chinese Christians to be truly Christians and to be good citizens.\u201d He also says they \u201cshould promote the Gospel, but without engaging in proselytism, and they need to achieve the unity of the divided Catholic community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September 2018, the Vatican drafted a framework agreement with China, 67 years after the papal representative was expelled, rupturing diplomatic relations. The agreement allows Rome, for the first time, to freely name bishops. The agreement should be renewed next September.\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 5, 2020. He prays for \u201cthe Church in China to persevere in its faithfulness to the Gospel and grow in unity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18342,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/F_Yq17najGo","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/EN-ThePopeVideo-CatholicsinChina.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/EN-ThePopeVideo-CatholicsinChina.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46930"}],"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=46930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}