{"id":47697,"date":"2019-08-31T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/08\/31\/pope-francis-asks-christians-to-pray-for-the-protection-of-seas-and-oceans-in-september\/"},"modified":"2019-08-31T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T09:30:00","slug":"pope-francis-asks-christians-to-pray-for-the-protection-of-seas-and-oceans-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/08\/31\/pope-francis-asks-christians-to-pray-for-the-protection-of-seas-and-oceans-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis asks Christians to pray for the protection of seas and oceans in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his monthly video, Pope Francis has asked Christians to pray during the month of September \u201cthat politicians, scientists and economists work together to protect the world\u2019s seas and oceans.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is a petition closely linked to his encyclical Laudato si'. The Pope's World Prayer Network, in charge of spreading the pope's intention, recalls that each year \u201c13 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year,\u201d causing \u201cthe death of 100,000 marine species.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It also notes one of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 is to counter the contamination of the seas and oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Addtionally, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creationis is celebrated every Sept. 1. It was founded by Pope Francis in 2015.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until October 4, the feast of St. Francis, Christians of all confessions will commemorate together the \u201cSeason of Creation,\u201d a period of special prayer for the environment.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 31st, 2019. The Pope's World Prayer Network recalls that each year \u201c13 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tE-egAElArE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/Protecting_the_ oceanseng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/Protecting_the_ oceanseng.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47697"}],"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=47697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}