With temperatures in Rome continuing to drop, the pope held his General Audience in Paul VI Audience Hall inside the Vatican. He stopped to accept a cup of tea from this priest standing among the crowd.<\/p>\n
Then the pope continued his catechesis on the Acts of the Apostles, reflecting on the story of St. Paul, who turned his sufferings as a prisoner into a proclamation of Jesus as the risen Lord.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Pope Francis remembered persecuted Christians of today. He likened modern-day martyrs to St. Paul's own life of sacrifice dedicated to Christ.<\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> After the audience, performers from the Moscow State Circus impressed the pope with their human pyramids and juggling. They performed to \u201cJingle Bell Rock,\u201d in the spirit of Christmas.<\/p>\n Claudia Torres<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 11, 2019. The pope remembered persecuted Christians around the world who give their lives for the faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G0Newh_zU6M","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1112eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza1112int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47282"}],"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=47282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n \u201cPaul's love for Christ is so strong that even these chains are seen through the eyes of faith, faith that for Paul is not a theory nor opinion about God and the world, but rather an impact of God's love on his heart. It is love for Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n \u201cToday in the world, in Europe, many Christians are persecuted and give their lives for their faith.\u201d \u201cMartyrdom is the breath of a Christian's life, of a Christian community. There will always be martyrs among us. This is the sign we're on the path of Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n