{"id":50796,"date":"2014-06-13T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/06\/13\/world-cup-at-the-center-of-pope-s-meeting-with-latin-american-bishops\/"},"modified":"2014-06-13T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T17:19:00","slug":"world-cup-at-the-center-of-pope-s-meeting-with-latin-american-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/06\/13\/world-cup-at-the-center-of-pope-s-meeting-with-latin-american-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup at the center of Pope's meeting with Latin American bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis met with the leadership of the Populorum Progressio Foundation. The group works closely with indigenous communities in Latin America.  \t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>'The patriarch of America...'<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by his colleagues,the Pope showed right away the humility he is known for.  \t  \t -Did you celebrate his birthday?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Did you get him a cake?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Later today.  \t<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Throughout the audience, there was one thing on their minds. Pope Francis joked with the archbishop of Salvador in Brazil.\u00a0  \t  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>'Congratulations. The first goal against [Brazil] must have been hard to swallow.'&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Business aside, when they finished the formal part of their audience, the conversation between the Pope and the group shifted again to the World Cup.\u00a0  \t  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Your Holiness, Colombia will beat Greece.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-It's possible.  \t  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before saying goodbye, the Pope had a surprise in store for the archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador, who celebrated his birthday on June 3.  \t  \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>'He turned 75 years old, so we have to give him his birthday gift.' \t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>John Paul II established the Populorum Progessio Foundation in 1992 to support the development of campesinos, or farmers, in Latin America.  \t  \t<\/p>\n<p>The foundation leadership meets every year in Rome. The four-day session started on Tuesday and closed off with the Pope's audience.  \t  \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 13, 2014. He welcomed the Administration Council for the Populorum Progressio Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/i6mG3q17kBU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bpopolorumint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50796"}],"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=50796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}