{"id":50726,"date":"2014-06-03T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/06\/03\/indian-cardinal-simon-lourdusamy-passes-away-at-90\/"},"modified":"2014-06-03T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:29:00","slug":"indian-cardinal-simon-lourdusamy-passes-away-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/06\/03\/indian-cardinal-simon-lourdusamy-passes-away-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Cardinal Simon Lourdusamy passes away at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Cardinal Simon Lourdusamy passed away on Monday June 2nd at the age of 90. He was the fourth Indian to be made a Cardinal and the first  ;from Asia to join the Roman Curia.<\/p>\n<p>John Paul II made him a Cardinal back 1985. For many years, he served as Prefect for the Congregation for Oriental Churches and he also worked for the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.<\/p>\n<p>With his death, the total number of Cardinals decreases to 214, but the number of papal electors remains at 118.  ;<\/p>\n<p>MAE\/PM<br \/>\nRR<br \/>\nFA<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp:JRB<br \/>\n#Vatican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 3, 2014. Throughout the years, he served as the Prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/tMAF8D-km4c","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bcardenallourdusamyint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50726"}],"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=50726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}