{"id":50336,"date":"2017-09-12T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/09\/12\/pope-francis-most-powerful-messages-in-colombia\/"},"modified":"2017-09-12T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:07:00","slug":"pope-francis-most-powerful-messages-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/09\/12\/pope-francis-most-powerful-messages-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis' most powerful messages in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Colombia, Pope Francis left a very powerful, and strong, message: banish the <strong>desire for revenge<\/strong>, and forgive despite so many decades of pain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS <br \/>\n<\/strong><em>'We have to break the chain that is presented as inescapable, and this is only possible with forgiveness and concrete reconciliation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also gave direct messages against those who profit from the drug business at the expense of<strong> young people. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>'Young people are naturally restless, a restlessness that is often betrayed and destroyed by drug pushers. Medell\u00edn reminds me of this, and makes me think of so many young lives cut short, discarded, destroyed. I invite you all to remember, to ask for forgiveness for those who destroy the illusions of so many young people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just as the pope told the drug hitmen not to take advantage of the youth, he also told the<strong> Church hierarchy<\/strong> not to take advantage of the people entrusted to them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS <br \/>\n<\/strong><em>'The Church is not present in Latin America with her suitcases in hand, ready, like so many others over time, to abandon it after having plundered it.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As always, he continued his strong appeals for the care of nature and his call to end human trafficking. There were also no shortages of references to countries in countries, particularly neighboring <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 12, 2017. He had strong words against \u201cdrug hitmen\u201d and urged national reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9asTOJz8erk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbestsmseng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbestsmsint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50336"}],"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=50336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}