{"id":49245,"date":"2018-06-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/06\/16\/the-reasons-for-pope-francis-trip-to-switzerland-june-21\/"},"modified":"2018-06-16T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T09:00:00","slug":"the-reasons-for-pope-francis-trip-to-switzerland-june-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/06\/16\/the-reasons-for-pope-francis-trip-to-switzerland-june-21\/","title":{"rendered":"The reasons for Pope Francis' trip to Switzerland June 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis will travel to Geneva June 21 to celebrate 70 years of an important ecumenical institution: the World Council of Churches.<\/p>\n<p>This body was formed in 1948 as the result of decades of dialogue between Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, Baptists, Methodists, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The organization represents 560 million Christians from 110 countries. It promotes the unity of Christians, respecting the diversity of all its members.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church is not an official part of the Council, but participates in some areas as a full member.<\/p>\n<p>The pope is scheduled to arrive in Switzerland at 10 o'clock in the morning. He will hold a meeting with the president at the airport, and then travel to the World Council of Churches to participate in an ecumenical prayer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He will eat lunch with some of the group's leaders, and at 3:45 p.m., there will be another ecumenical meeting. Then, Pope Francis will celebrate a Mass for the Catholics of the country. At 8 p.m. the pope is scheduled to depart for Rome, and he will arrive almost two hours later.<\/p>\n<p>John Paul II and Paul VI also visited the World Council of Churches, but within the framework of a broader pastoral journey. Pope Francis will travel to Switzerland strictly to be with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 16, 2018. It will be the 23rd international trip for the pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LZFGEwMTlv0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwginevraeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwginevraint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49245"}],"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=49245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}