{"id":49681,"date":"2018-02-13T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/02\/13\/pope-francis-holds-mass-in-casa-santa-marta-for-persecuted-christians\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:58:00","slug":"pope-francis-holds-mass-in-casa-santa-marta-for-persecuted-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/02\/13\/pope-francis-holds-mass-in-casa-santa-marta-for-persecuted-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis holds Mass in Casa Santa Marta for persecuted Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday's Mass in Casa Santa Marta was a special one. Pope Francis presided alongside the <strong>Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Youssef Absi<\/strong>, who visited the pope to renew his Church's communion with Rome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Father mentioned this during the celebration and reminded that this ceremony means \u201cthe hug of a father of a Church with Peter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Antioch has its patriarchate in Damascus, Syria. Thus, the pope especially pondered the suffering of Middle Eastern Christians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe celebrate this Mass for the people who suffer, and for persecuted Christians in the Middle East, who give up their lives, goods, and property because they are driven out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week, Pope Francis held a meeting with these bishops in which he praised the good the Melkite Greek Catholic Church is doing in these difficult times for Christians in places like Syria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bishops presented the pope with this chalice and paten, which they used during Tuesday's Mass in<strong> Casa Santa Marta.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2018. It was a joint celebration with the Melkite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Youssef Absi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RIDnsVUTf-o","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/newsbstamarta1302eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstamarta1302int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681"}],"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=49681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}