As soon as he arrived in Latvia, the pope was greeted with this musical surprise. <\/p>\n
The pope listened attentively to them... and then thanked all the young girls one by one. <\/p>\n
Pope Francis then went to an old castle, now the presidential palace, for the official welcoming ceremony. <\/p>\n
There he was met by the president of the country, Raimonds V\u0113jonis, who came out to the main door to greet him.<\/p>\n
The president showed him some of the rooms before meeting with him in private. <\/p>\n
There also in the presidential palace, the pope met with about 500 representatives of civil society: politicians, magistrates and ambassadors. <\/p>\n
The pope asked them, after a past marked by conflicts and divisions caused by totalitarianism, to build the future by helping people. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> As part of the State protocol, the pope and the President placed flowers in front of the Monument of Liberty. <\/p>\n They built it in 1935 during a short period of freedom, and managed to keep it from being demolished during the Soviet occupation. <\/p>\n The low temperatures of the Baltic States contrast with the Roman heat, and the pope has had a bit of a cold. <\/p>\n But that doesn't prevent him from enjoying the people's company and warmth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 24, 2018. Pope Francis asks for gestures of solidarity with people. The country welcomes him with music, smiles and cordiality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UyTkycRuB_0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/barrivotettoniaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/barrivotettoniaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48919"}],"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=48919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cIf today we can celebrate, it is due to all those who blazed trails and opened a door to the future, and bequeathed to you that same responsibility: to open a door to the future by looking to everything that stands at the service of life, of generating life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n