{"id":48061,"date":"2019-05-02T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/05\/02\/popes-may-intention-pray-the-church-of-africa-is-a-seed-of-unity-and-place-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:28:00","slug":"popes-may-intention-pray-the-church-of-africa-is-a-seed-of-unity-and-place-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/05\/02\/popes-may-intention-pray-the-church-of-africa-is-a-seed-of-unity-and-place-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope's May intention: pray the Church of Africa is a seed of unity and place of hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Marian month of May, Pope Francis has asked people to pray for the \u201cChurch in Africa [that it] may be a seed of unity among her peoples and a sign of hope for the entire continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the pope's video message, he thanks all the religious members and missionaries involved in creating \u201cdialogue and reconciliation among the various sectors of African society.'&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He says only in promoting \u201cunity in diversity\u201d can \u201cethnic, linguistic, and tribal divisions in Africa\u201d be overcome.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According the 2018 Pontifical Yearbook, Africa is home to 17.6 percent of the world's Catholics. It  is also a continent with the greatest activity and demand for pastoral services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church in Africa has 1,321 hospitals, 1,130 orphanages and 2,112 marriage counseling centers among other activities. Pope Francis will also be traveling to Africa in September 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He says only in promoting \u201cunity in diversity\u201d can \u201cethnic, linguistic, and tribal divisions in Africa\u201d be overcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":48062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z7hFaaXozPQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmayintentionS0502eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmayintentionS0502int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48061"}],"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=48061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}