{"id":52374,"date":"2015-02-23T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/02\/23\/pope-francis-meets-with-german-chancellor-angela-merkel\/"},"modified":"2015-02-23T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T13:30:00","slug":"pope-francis-meets-with-german-chancellor-angela-merkel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/02\/23\/pope-francis-meets-with-german-chancellor-angela-merkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the second time. They discussed a wide range of topics during their forty minute meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The two exchanged views on environmental conservation, women's rights, fighting poverty, and an upcoming international summit to be held in Germany later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine, however, was at the center of their talk. The German chancellor speaks Russian fluently and has played a major role in mediating the relationship between Russia and Europe. The Pope strongly encouraged Merkel to help find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Merkel received from the Pope a medallion of St. Martin. It depicts the saint removing his cloak so he can give it to the poor.<\/p>\n<p>'I like to give this to the heads of state, because it reminds them it is their duty to protect the poor in society.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>'We try to do our best.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Merkel gave a donation to help refugee children in the Middle East. She also gifted the Pope a CD collection of Johann Sebastian Bach's music.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin met with Merkel after her audience with Pope Francis. They were joined by Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Richard Gallagher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ATO<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp:AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23, 2015. ;The two discussed Ukraine, ecological conservation, women's rights, and other issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nXzoNTjpD8A","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bmerkelint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52374"}],"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=52374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}