{"id":52975,"date":"2015-04-07T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/04\/07\/pope-francis-on-persecution-of-christians-international-community-cannot-be-inactive\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T10:27:09","slug":"pope-francis-on-persecution-of-christians-international-community-cannot-be-inactive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/04\/07\/pope-francis-on-persecution-of-christians-international-community-cannot-be-inactive\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis on persecution of Christians: International community cannot be inactive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis once again denounced the persecution of Christians in strong terms. This \u00a0time, his words came during the Easter Monday Regina Coeli address.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'What must continue on the part of all is the spiritual journey of prayer, intense prayer; the concrete participation and tangible help in the defense and protection of our brothers and sisters, who are persecuted, exiled, killed, beheaded, for the only reason of being a Christian.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Shalom Catholic Community, the Pope said it was 'unacceptable\u00e2?\u009d for Christians to lose their lives simply because of their faith.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'They are our martyrs today and they are many; we are able to say that they are more numerous than in the first centuries.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope called on the international community to 'not look the other way\u00e2?\u009d or be 'silent and inactive\u00e2?\u009d while Christians remain threatened throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>ATO<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp:AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 7, 2015.\u00a0He called religious persecution an \"unacceptable crime\u00e2?\u009d on Easter Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/mGF9RJTYkqg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52975"}],"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=52975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}