{"id":51558,"date":"2014-10-30T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/10\/30\/pope-francis-christian-life-is-a-constant-battle-against-the-devil\/"},"modified":"2014-10-30T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:58:00","slug":"pope-francis-christian-life-is-a-constant-battle-against-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/10\/30\/pope-francis-christian-life-is-a-constant-battle-against-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Christian life is a constant battle against the devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his \u00a0homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis stressed that the devil exists, and that Christians must constantly fight against him and other temptations.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'This generation \u00e2?? along with many others \u00e2?? has been taught that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil. But the devil exists, and we must fight against him.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope explained that Christian life has three enemies: the devil, the world and the temptations of the flesh. However, he assured that God acts as an armor and is alongside Christians during their battles.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'And Paul explains this armor of God, what the different armors are that form this great armor of God. And he says: 'Stand firm, and, at your waist, carry truth'. This is God's armor: the truth.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the devil is the father of lies, and that, despite counting on God's support, every Christian must defend his faith.<\/p>\n<p>CA<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\n-<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\n-Up:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 30, 2014. He explained that truth is the best armor against the devil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/IrqpEcT0n5o","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bstamarta3010int.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51558"}],"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=51558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}