After ordaining 16 priests, the pope wanted to present four of them to the 30,000 pilgrims who filled St. Peter's Square to pray the Regina Coeli with the pope. <\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Moments earlier he had asked for prayer for the situation in Nicaragua, where violence is escalating at a disturbing rate. <\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> In Nicaragua, the president's proposed reforms have led to clashes between the opposition and police. The protests have been harshly stifled and have claimed the lives of around 30 people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 23, 2018. The pope expressed his concern about the tense climate that is spreading in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Urxw8o_c7sI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus2204eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus2204int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466"}],"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=49466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n'As I was saying, today I ordained 16 priests. Out of these 16, four came here to greet you and give the blessing with me.'<\/em> <\/p>\n
\n'I express my closeness in prayer to that country, and I join the bishops in asking that the violence cease, the useless bloodshed be avoided and the opened questions be resolved peacefully and with a sense of responsibility.'<\/em><\/p>\n