{"id":51207,"date":"2014-08-27T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/08\/27\/the-pope-s-personal-envoy-to-iraq-gets-ready-to-travel-to-washington-d-c\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:12:33","slug":"the-pope-s-personal-envoy-to-iraq-gets-ready-to-travel-to-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/08\/27\/the-pope-s-personal-envoy-to-iraq-gets-ready-to-travel-to-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope's personal envoy to Iraq gets ready to travel to Washington, D.C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After meeting with Iraqi refugees who were forced out of their homes, Cardinal Fernando Filoni is now planning on traveling to Washington D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He's planning on meeting with Patriarchs of the Eastern Church and with American Bishops to discuss the persecution of religious minorities and what can be done to help.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the Pope's envoy to Iraq, Cardinal Filoni personally saw the suffering Christian minorities are going through. For a week, he talked to refugees, visited their camps and listened to first hand accounts of the persecution they endured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CARD. FERNANDO FILONI\u00a0<br \/>\nPapal Envoy to Iraq\u00a0<br \/>\n'I think it's up to us now. Just like Pope Francis says, we have to take care of our brothers and sisters across the board.\u00e2?\u009d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Holy See's Permanent Observer before the United Nations, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, said that additional initiatives are being considered in Geneva to help persecuted minorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of Filoni's visit comes days before the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Bechara Boutros Rai, meets with Pope Francis to discuss the situation of Christians in the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PM\/KLH\u00a0<br \/>\nRR\u00a0<br \/>\nFA<br \/>\n-PR\u00a0<br \/>\nUp: JAE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 27, 2014. ;Card. Filoni plans to meet with Patriarchs of the Eastern Church to discuss the situation in Iraq. ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":30282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VWbVcaq6gbk","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bfiloninextint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207"}],"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=51207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}