{"id":57631,"date":"2016-12-24T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2016\/12\/24\/nativity-scene-and-christmas-tree-in-st-peter-s-square-evokes-the-tragedy-of-refugees\/"},"modified":"2016-12-24T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T15:00:00","slug":"nativity-scene-and-christmas-tree-in-st-peter-s-square-evokes-the-tragedy-of-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2016\/12\/24\/nativity-scene-and-christmas-tree-in-st-peter-s-square-evokes-the-tragedy-of-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Nativity scene and Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square evokes the tragedy of refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nativity scene and the Christmas tree in the Vatican, the heart of Catholicism, have a special meaning.<\/p>\n<p>They usually reflect the concerns of each pontiff, and in Francis' case, migration is central. The nativity scene comes from the island of Malta. A land of migrants after World War II, it is now one of the places that receives the most migrants in the world.<\/p>\n<p>CARD. GIUSEPPE BERTELLO<br \/>\nGovernorate, Vatican City State<br \/>\n'The presence of a boat with which migrants brave the sea to get to Europe in search of a home and a better future is very revealing.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The decorations of the nativity scene are typically Maltese; the architecture, the dresses, and even the boat, which is traditional fisher's boat in the island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 80-feet-tall tree is a wake up call for Europe, so it does not forget its migrant past. It comes from the Trentino region, in the north of Italy, a land that was also emptied by the great conflicts of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>MSGR. LAURO TISI<br \/>\nArchbishop of Trento (Italia)<br \/>\n'We cannot celebrate Christmas without remembering the tragedy of migrants. We cannot celebrate Christmas forgetting that we cannot find Christ when we reject immigrants.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas tree decorations were made by children in the oncology branch of hospitals. The tree will be replaced by another forty exactly like it.<\/p>\n<p>The nativity scene and the tree will decorate St. Peter's Square until January 8, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>JRB\/AG<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp: JMB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 24, 2016. They come from refugee passing zones or regions that experienced ;migration. ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":39856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/B0-L7UailIQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpresepevaticanoint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57631"}],"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=57631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}