{"id":50323,"date":"2017-09-14T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/09\/14\/tony-blair-to-the-pope-i-support-minorities-in-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:22:00","slug":"tony-blair-to-the-pope-i-support-minorities-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/09\/14\/tony-blair-to-the-pope-i-support-minorities-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair to the pope: I support minorities in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former prime minister of the UK, Tony Blair, greeted the pope at the end of the General Audience. He expressed his concern for the situation<strong> facing minorities in the Middle East<\/strong> and he offered his willingness to work with Pope Francis to help them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt's so good to see you. It's a very great honor.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPray for me, don't forget.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI always...Please pray for me too. I need your prayers. It's so good to see you. I'm a very, very big admirer. \u201d <br \/>\n\u201cI'm with... protecting minorities in the Middle East and I think we can, with the leadership in the Middle East, work with you to do this.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThank you very much, it is very kind.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cPray for me, don't forget.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI will pray for you, please pray for me.' <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It's not the first time the British politician and Catholic convert has been in the Vatican. In 2007, he visited Benedict XVI, just before he was succeeded as Prime Minister by <strong>Gordon Brown<\/strong> in June of that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 14, 2017. They exchanged a few words at the end of the General Audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qbp60F7-Urg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bblaireng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bblairint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50323"}],"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=50323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}