{"id":58493,"date":"2017-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/06\/26\/pope-francis-being-a-missionary-means-not-going-sightseeing\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T22:00:00","slug":"pope-francis-being-a-missionary-means-not-going-sightseeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/06\/26\/pope-francis-being-a-missionary-means-not-going-sightseeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Being a missionary means not going sightseeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='paragraph'>During the <span style='font-weight: bold;'>Angelus<\/span> prayer, the <span style='font-weight: bold;'>pope recalled the difficulties Christians face when they decide to preach the Gospel abroad or as missionaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>POPE FRANCIS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-style: italic;'>'To be a missionary is not to go sightseeing, and Jesus warns his people: 'You will find persecutions.'\u00e2?\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>The pope said that <span style='font-weight: bold;'>persecution is not a thing of the past<\/span>, and that in many parts of the world, Christians are still being persecuted because of their faith.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>POPE FRANCIS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-style: italic;'>'Let us pray for our brothers and sisters who are persecuted, and praise God because, despite this, they continue to bear witness to their faith with courage and fidelity.\u00e2?\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>At the conclusion of the prayer, <span style='font-weight: bold;'>Pope Francis <\/span>prayed for the more than 100 victims of China's natural disaster; a mudslide that buried a small down in the southwest of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>JRB\/JC<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>CTV<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>-V<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>-BN<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Up:JC<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 26, 2017. ;He also prayed for the victims of a mudslide in China that buried an entire village. ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ruMIh4OBf0Y","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus260617int.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58493"}],"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=58493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}