{"id":47060,"date":"2020-02-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2020\/02\/08\/lula-da-silva-could-visit-pope-francis-feb\/"},"modified":"2020-02-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T11:00:00","slug":"lula-da-silva-could-visit-pope-francis-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2020\/02\/08\/lula-da-silva-could-visit-pope-francis-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"Lula Da Silva will visit Pope Francis Feb. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his personal Twitter account,<strong> former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva announced he will meet with Pope Francis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will visit Pope Francis to thank him not only for his solidarity with me in a difficult time, but especially for his dedication to the oppressed people. I also want to discuss the Brazilian experience in the fight against poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers say Lula asked to postpone a court hearing to travel to the Vatican on Feb. 13. The Brazilian court is analyzing the request.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Holy See has not confirmed anything<\/strong>. But during the Argentine president's visit with Pope Francis, Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez said he talked about this potential meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALBERTO FERN\u00c1NDEZ<br \/>\nPresident of Argentina<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cLula asked me if he could see the pope. So I asked the pope if he could receive Lula. The pope told me of course if he writes, he would gladly receive Lula.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The last time Lula visited the Vatican was in March 2009.<\/strong> His meeting with Benedict XVI lasted about 25 minutes. Among several topics, he thanked him for signing the Treaty on the activity of the Catholic Church in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>\nDaniel D\u00edaz Vizzi<br \/>\nMelissa Butz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 8, 2020. The Holy See has not confirmed the meeting between the former president of Brazil and Pope Francis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A7X0H7Yykmc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapalulaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapalulaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060"}],"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=47060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}