{"id":63886,"date":"2023-12-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=63886"},"modified":"2023-12-27T13:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T12:25:12","slug":"pope-francis-remembers-those-who-are-persecuted-for-their-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2023\/12\/27\/pope-francis-remembers-those-who-are-persecuted-for-their-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis remembers those who are persecuted for their faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the day the Church remembers the first martyr, St. Stephen, Pope Francis asked for prayers for the Christian communities around the world who are persecuted for their faith.<br><br><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br><em>I am close to Christian communities that suffer discrimination and urge them to persevere in charity toward all, striving peacefully for justice and religious freedom.<\/em><br><br>According to Aid to the Church in Need, religious freedom is violated in one out of every three countries in the world.<br><br>The Pope also commended St. Stephen for his work towards world peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br><em>The media shows us what war produces: we have seen Syria, we see Gaza. We think of the battered Ukraine. A desert of death. Is this what is wanted? The people want peace. Let us pray for peace. Let us fight for peace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 15,000 people prayed the Angelus with Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square on St. Stephen's Day, which is a feast day in Italy.<br><br>JRB<br>TR: AT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day the Church remembers the first martyr, St. Stephen, Pope Francis asked for prayers for the Christian communities around the world who are persecuted for their faith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":63868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,174,27,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/F627wEQkal4","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelussstefanoeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelussstefanoint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63886"}],"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=63886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63890,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63886\/revisions\/63890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}