{"id":51064,"date":"2014-07-30T19:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/07\/30\/evangelicals-apologize-to-catholics-for-past-persecution-and-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T19:04:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:04:35","slug":"evangelicals-apologize-to-catholics-for-past-persecution-and-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/07\/30\/evangelicals-apologize-to-catholics-for-past-persecution-and-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals apologize to Catholics for past persecution and discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his visit with an evangelical pastor and his congregation in the Italian city of Caserta, Pope Francis apologized for the persecution of Pentecostal Christians by Italian Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks were greatly welcomed by evangelical leaders, who responded in a similar way. They also apologized to Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the World Evangelical Alliance, Rev. Geoff Tunnicliffe, said he was sorry about the discrimination that Protestants, including Evangelical Christians, also imposed on Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>'While we can disagree theologically, this should never lead to discrimination or persecution of the other,\u00e2?\u009d he said. The Rev also added that the Pope's step in apologizing is a great example, and should be a message to the entire world, especially for those countries where tensions between Catholics and Protestants remain.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Tunnicliffe attended the Pope's Inauguration Mass. He also visited the Vatican for the Pope's meeting with evangelical leaders at Casa Santa Marta.<\/p>\n<p>The World Evangelical Alliance represents about 600 million Protestants in nearly 130 countries.<\/p>\n<p>AC\/RCA<br \/>\nRR<br \/>\nJM<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp: MAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 30, 2014. ;The World Evangelical Alliance issued its response after the Pope's initial apology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/bjoe1GjUJjw","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bevanperdonint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064"}],"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=51064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}