{"id":51281,"date":"2014-09-11T18:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/09\/11\/pope-meets-with-group-of-albino-children-before-general-audience\/"},"modified":"2014-09-11T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:20:53","slug":"pope-meets-with-group-of-albino-children-before-general-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/09\/11\/pope-meets-with-group-of-albino-children-before-general-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope meets with group of albino children before General Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Wednesday's General Audience, Pope Francis met with a group of albinos at the Paul VI Audience Hall. The Pope greeted each person one by one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After greeting them, he thanked them for their visit and asked for their prayers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'I thank you for your visit. Thank you very much. I ask you to pray for me, please do not forget. So that I can go forward with my work. I will pray for all of you and for the children.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He then led them in praying the Hail Mary and gave them his blessing before heading out to St. Peter's Square for the General Audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plight of albinos, who are often victims of discrimination or even violence, is an issue close to the Pope's heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He recently lent his voice for the social audiobook 'Ombra Bianca\u00e2?\u009d (White Shadow), an initiative launched to aid albinos in Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JAE<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n-BR<br \/>\nUp: PM\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 11, 2014. ;The struggles of albinos, especially in Africa, is an issue close to his heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":30484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1jV00kffPSI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/balbiniint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51281"}],"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=51281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}