{"id":50129,"date":"2017-11-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/11\/01\/pope-will-visit-us-cemetery-to-pray-for-all-war-victims\/"},"modified":"2017-11-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T07:00:00","slug":"pope-will-visit-us-cemetery-to-pray-for-all-war-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/11\/01\/pope-will-visit-us-cemetery-to-pray-for-all-war-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope will visit U.S. cemetery to pray for all war victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, coinciding with the day the Catholic Church remembers the <strong>deceased<\/strong>, Pope Francis will visit the Sicily-<strong>Rome American Cemetery<\/strong> in Nettuno, south of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>There lie the remains of 7,861 men and women from the United States, who died in Italy in <strong>World War II.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They are soldiers and some Red Cross nurses who lost their lives during the liberation of Sicily and battle of Anzio between 1943 and 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Next to their tombs, Pope Francis will celebrate a solemn Mass to<strong> pray 'for all those fallen in wars.'<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That same day, before returning to the Vatican, the pope will also stop at the<strong> Ardeatine graves<\/strong>, which Benedict XVI had also visited.<\/p>\n<p>These mines on the outskirts of Rome are where <strong>the Nazis murdered 335 Italian civilians in March 1944.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was retaliation for an attack against 30 German soldiers, and Hitler had ordered 10 Italians to die for each German.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is a place symbolic <\/strong>of the homicidal madness of any war, where both Jews and Christians lie together and people of all religions visit every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 1, 2017. He will go to Sicily-Rome American Cemetery on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Tz6TyEv2eG8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwcimiteroeng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpwcimiteroint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50129"}],"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=50129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}