{"id":66834,"date":"2024-04-08T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T08:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=66834"},"modified":"2024-04-08T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T08:32:15","slug":"pope-francis-mourns-victims-of-bus-crash-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2024\/04\/08\/pope-francis-mourns-victims-of-bus-crash-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis mourns victims of bus crash in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the second Sunday of Easter, Pope Francis greeted the faithful celebrating Divine Mercy Sunday in St. Peter's Square. The Pope took the opportunity to invite everyone present to \u201clet themselves be found\u201d by that mercy that leads to hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br><\/strong><em>To seek Jesus, to allow ourselves to be encountered\u2014because He seeks us\u2014to open our hearts to encounter Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After praying the Regina Caeli\u2014a Marian prayer used during the Easter season\u2014the Pope remembered 45 people killed when their vehicle lost control on an Easter pilgrimage in South Africa. The only survivor was an 8-year-old girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br><\/strong><em>I would like to remember the people who died in the accident when a bus went off the road in South Africa a few days ago. Let us pray for them and their families.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Francis reiterated his call for peace in Ukraine and Gaza. He also sent greetings to the participants of the International Conference for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood, which took place in Rome on April 5 and 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On several occasions, the Pope has spoken out against surrogacy. During a meeting with diplomats in January, he called it a \u201cdeplorable practice\u201d that turns both mother and child into a commodity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PA<br>TR: KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 28, 45 people were killed while traveling by bus on an Easter pilgrimage in South Africa. The vehicle lost control and an 8-year-old girl is the only survivor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":66831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,194,27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/A7xVGHqcWVE","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0704eng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0704int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66834"}],"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=66834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66836,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66834\/revisions\/66836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}