{"id":50628,"date":"2014-05-21T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/05\/21\/president-of-macedonia-gives-pope-an-image-of-sts-cyril-and-methodius\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:40:00","slug":"president-of-macedonia-gives-pope-an-image-of-sts-cyril-and-methodius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/05\/21\/president-of-macedonia-gives-pope-an-image-of-sts-cyril-and-methodius\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Macedonia gives Pope an image of Sts. Cyril and Methodius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis welcomed the President of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanon, at Casa Santa Marta.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief meeting behind closed doors, President Ivanon introduced his wife and members of his delegation, including several government ministers.<\/p>\n<p>'They are all young!\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The delegation also included Stephen of Ohrid and Macedonia, the primate and leader of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. He and the Pope greeted each other affectionately.<\/p>\n<p>The Balkan head of state gave the Pope an icon of Our Lady with Baby Jesus, as well as an engraved, wooden image of Saints Cyril and Methodius.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, the Pope gave the president a medallion of the Angel of Peace.<\/p>\n<p>'Continue working to achieve peace.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>With the visit to the Vatican, the Macedonian delegation ended a three-day trip to Italy, to mark a series of events titled, 'Macedonia honors St. Cyril.\u00e2?\u009d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PM\/RCA<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\nBN<br \/>\nUp: YJA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 21, 2014. The leader of the Macedonian Orthodox Church also greeted Pope Francis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/cX7cp_xSGu4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bpresmacedoniaint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628"}],"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=50628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}