{"id":68945,"date":"2024-06-17T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T09:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=68945"},"modified":"2024-06-17T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T09:05:10","slug":"pope-francis-denounces-persecution-of-christians-in-democratic-republic-of-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2024\/06\/17\/pope-francis-denounces-persecution-of-christians-in-democratic-republic-of-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis denounces persecution of Christians in Democratic Republic of Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At the end of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis condemned the climate of violence that plagues the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He called on the international community to help stabilize the area and denounced the persecution of Christians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br><\/strong><em>Among the victims, many are Christians killed out of hatred for the faith. They are martyrs. Their sacrifice is a seed that grows and bears fruit and teaches us to bear witness to the Gospel with courage and consistency.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes before, the Pope reflected on the readings of the day and said Christians must discover the value of waiting and imitate God, who is patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br><\/strong>Am I patient in waiting or do I get discouraged because I do not see results? And do I know how to entrust everything serenely to the Lord while doing my best to proclaim the Gospel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Francis also recalled that the day before, in Poland, a martyr who was killed during the Soviet occupation had been beatified. The Pope asked for a round of applause from those present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JRB<br>TR: AT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis condemned the climate of violence that plagues the DRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":68942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,194,27,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lCgybIln3T8","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus1606eng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus1606int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68945"}],"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=68945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68947,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68945\/revisions\/68947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}