{"id":67160,"date":"2024-04-19T13:46:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=67160"},"modified":"2024-04-19T13:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:49:11","slug":"think-of-children-in-gaza-machine-gunned-those-in-ukraine-who-are-no-longer-smiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2024\/04\/19\/think-of-children-in-gaza-machine-gunned-those-in-ukraine-who-are-no-longer-smiling\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThink of children in Gaza, machine-gunned; those in Ukraine who are no longer smiling\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Francis broke away from his planned speech to ask the thousands of young people gathered at the Vatican to pray for the children who are victims of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br><\/strong><em>Think of the Ukrainian children, who have forgotten to smile.<br>Think of the children in Gaza machine gunned and who are hungry. Think of the children. And now a small silence and each of us think of the Ukrainian children and the children of Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes before, the Pope had encouraged the participants to approach life with courage and open-mindedness and to avoid getting carried away by a comfortable but superficial life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br><\/strong><em>You are called - listen well, okay?<br>You are called to be protagonists and not spectators of the future. And I ask you: to what are you called?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To be what?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Protagonists.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I did not hear you well.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Protagonists!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Courage, onward.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the encounter, the Pope took time greeting those present in his wheelchair as they presented him with gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an initiative of the Community of Sant'Egidio that promotes the teaching of human rights in the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JRB<br>TR: KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope met with thousands of young people as part of an initiative of the Community of Sant'Egidio that promotes the teaching of human rights in classrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":67157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,214],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ce23wAhY2gU","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapascuoledipaceeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapascuoledipaceint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67160"}],"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=67160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67162,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67160\/revisions\/67162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}