{"id":56322,"date":"2016-10-17T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2016\/10\/17\/pope-francis-surprise-visit-to-a-children-s-home\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:03:08","slug":"pope-francis-surprise-visit-to-a-children-s-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2016\/10\/17\/pope-francis-surprise-visit-to-a-children-s-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis' surprise visit to a children's home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his 'Mercy Fridays\u00e2?\u009d resolution, Pope Francis visited 'Villagio SOS,\u00e2?\u009d a children's home in Rome for children who have difficult family situations.<\/p>\n<p>The pope was infected with the children's positive energy, and could not help but smile throughout the entire visit.<\/p>\n<p>The children, excited about their special guest, took the pope by the hand to show him around the facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The children at the home live in one of the five houses with a handful of other children, and a 'Villaggio SOS\u00e2?\u009d 'mom', that takes care of them and ensures a healthy family environment.<\/p>\n<p>The pope sat down to share a mid-afternoon snack with the toddlers, consisting of pastries and lots of sweets. One boy even wanted to give the pope a taste of his lollipop.<\/p>\n<p>'Buono\u00e2?\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>'Grazie\u00e2?\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis also greeted the workers and volunteers of the center and he gave them his blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving, the Pope Francis wanted to say goodbye to his hosts for the afternoon, and he kissed the children on the head one by one.<\/p>\n<p>AG<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\n-?<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\n-Up:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 17, 2016. He was all smiles as he spent the day surrounded by toddlers as part of his \"Mercy Fridays\u00e2?\u009d resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/bQNIG2bqhZg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapabambiniint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56322"}],"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=56322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}