{"id":49714,"date":"2018-02-05T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/02\/05\/president-of-turkey-in-vatican-to-speak-about-jerusalem-following-trumps-statements\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T15:23:50","slug":"president-of-turkey-in-vatican-to-speak-about-jerusalem-following-trumps-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/02\/05\/president-of-turkey-in-vatican-to-speak-about-jerusalem-following-trumps-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Turkey in Vatican to speak about Jerusalem following Trump's statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis met in the Vatican with the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The<strong> last time a Turkish head of state visited the Vatican was 59 years ago<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The greeting was restrained, but lasted a few seconds...<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHow are you?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI'm well, and you?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The meeting was<strong> proposed by the Turkish president<\/strong>, following Donald Trump announcing his intent to move the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, an act that would exacerbate religious tension in the city.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Father and his guest held a private encounter for nearly 50 minutes, while these meetings rarely exceed a half hour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis and Erdogan<strong> discussed bilateral relations between the two states<\/strong>, the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the Catholic community's current situation in Turkey and the conflict between Jerusalem and Palestine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the Vatican and Turkey have had their ups and downs. Pope Francis' public condemnation of Turkey's genocide of Armenians in 1915 seemed to unsettle the current Turkish leader.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Benedict XVI's comments on Islam in his Ratisbona address in 2006 didn't sit well either.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following an extended dialogue, Pope Francis met with the president's wife and his daughter, Ezra.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then, they exchanged gifts. The president presented the pope with a hand-made ceramic image containing Istanbul's landmarks as well as four books by Persian poet Rumi.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBeautiful, beautiful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis gave the president a medal with an angel.<\/p>\n<p>He also presented him with this etching of St. Peter's Basilica and a copy of his Laudato si' encyclical along with his message for the World Day of Peace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before bidding farewell, the pope asked Erdogan's wife to pray for him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis <strong>last visited Turkey in 2014<\/strong>. Since then, relations between both states have suffered minor breakdowns, which the Holy Father hopes to resolve through dialogue.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2018. The encounter between the two heads of state ran 20 minutes longer than the typical half hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/arpb_PH9c18","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaerdoganeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaerdoganint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49714"}],"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=49714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}