{"id":62354,"date":"2023-11-09T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=62354"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T12:54:49","slug":"pope-francis-baptizes-three-month-old-ukrainian-baby-in-chapel-of-his-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2023\/11\/09\/pope-francis-baptizes-three-month-old-ukrainian-baby-in-chapel-of-his-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis baptizes three-month-old Ukrainian baby in chapel of his residence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is a gift parents could never imagine: a pope celebrating the baptism of their child. That is what happened to one couple at the Vatican on November 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Francis administered the sacrament in the chapel of Casa Santa Marta\u2014the papal residence\u2014to a three-month-old Ukrainian baby boy. He is the last of ten children of Vitaly, 37, and Vita, 35. They live in western Ukraine, an area \"relatively\" safe from the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time that the Pope has celebrated this sacrament in the chapel of his residence. In 2015, he baptized the son of his friend Sergio, a man from Buenos Aires who works in recycling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SERGIO S\u00c1NCHEZ<br>President, Federaci\u00f3n Argentina de Cartoneros<\/strong><br><em>For those who work in recycling, it is a source of pride. I am most proud of all to be here; that he can baptize our son\u2014for us, it is a great joy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years later, in 2017, Pope Francis once again celebrated the sacrament for 13 children born in the earthquake-stricken areas of Amatrice, Italy. The youngest was just five days old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, the Pope repeated this gesture with two-year-old Siamese twins from the Central African Republic. They were joined at the skull and, days earlier, had undergone surgery at the Vatican's pediatric hospital, the Bambino Ges\u00f9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CA<br>TR: KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baby is the last of the ten children of a Ukrainian couple: Vitaly, 37, and Vita, 35. But it is not the first time that the Pope has baptized a child in the chapel of his residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":62351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,195,27,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_2smfS4Isqw","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapabattesimoucrainoeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapabattesimoucrainoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62354"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62356,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62354\/revisions\/62356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}