{"id":52474,"date":"2015-03-02T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/03\/02\/iraqi-kurdistan-prime-minister-asks-pope-francis-to-encourage-international-community\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:48:00","slug":"iraqi-kurdistan-prime-minister-asks-pope-francis-to-encourage-international-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/03\/02\/iraqi-kurdistan-prime-minister-asks-pope-francis-to-encourage-international-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Kurdistan prime minister asks Pope Francis to encourage international community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis met with Iraqi Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani at the Apostolic Palace. The two primarily discussed the humanitarian crisis in the prime minister's homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdistan is the only region in Iraq where thousands of Christian families have found safety from the Islamic State. Barzani said this has placed incredible stress on his government.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister asked Pope Francis to encourage the international community to provide more assistance to Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<p>Following their meeting, the Pope made a common request. But he was surprised by the answer, and both men smiled.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'Pray for me. I need it.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>NECHIRVAN BARZANI<br \/>\n'No, no.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'Yes! Yes! Don't forget.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>During his Angelus prayer the day before, the Pope denounced the 'intolerable brutality\u00e2?\u009d of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>ATO<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp: GRT<br \/>\n#POPE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2, 2015. ;The region is a refuge for Christians who escape the Islamic State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WnmhhP6v8N8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bkurdistanint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52474"}],"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=52474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}