{"id":48694,"date":"2018-11-19T15:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/11\/19\/pope-invites-more-than-1500-homeless-people-to-eat-at-vatican\/"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:22:00","slug":"pope-invites-more-than-1500-homeless-people-to-eat-at-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/11\/19\/pope-invites-more-than-1500-homeless-people-to-eat-at-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope invites more than 1,500 homeless people to eat at Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the Second World Day of the Poor, the pope held a Mass and organized a special lunch in the Paul VI Hall. It was attended by 1,500 homeless people in Rome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This initiative began last year at Pope Francis' request. It aims to end indifference and throwaway culture. <\/strong>As soon as he arrived, the pope greeted the cooks, who were sent from the Hilton Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Some could not hold back the excitement or their tears when seeing the pope...<\/p>\n<p>To the amazement of those who observed him, the Pope opened lunch with words of thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p><em>'May God bless all of us here, each of us. May he bless our hearts, our petitions, and help us move forward. Amen. Enjoy your lunch!'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope sat down with them to eat, where they all joked and laughed together. <strong>Those who were sitting at the same table as him took pictures and those at the other tables looked at him intently. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he even brought with him musical accompaniment.<\/p>\n<p>It was an unforgettable day, especially for those who unfortunately are not used to being treated with equality or respect.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 19, 2018. Pope Francis sat down with them to eat. It is the second annual celebration of the World Day of the Poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E7oZ2ClO0x0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpranzopoverieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpranzopoveriint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48694"}],"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=48694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}