{"id":86893,"date":"2026-02-16T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=86893"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:11:23","slug":"cyclones-in-madagascar-pope-leo-prays-for-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/02\/16\/cyclones-in-madagascar-pope-leo-prays-for-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclones in Madagascar: Pope Leo prays for victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Madagascar, the passage of two cyclones has devastated the country. Winds reached 250 km per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reason, from Rome, Pope Leo XIV asked for help and prayers for those affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE LEO XIV<\/strong><br><em>I am close to the people of Madagascar who were struck, within a short period of time, by two cyclones, with flooding and landslides. I pray for the victims and their families, and for all those who have suffered serious damage.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes earlier, the pontiff had reflected on the Gospel of the day, in which Christ refined the concept of sin even further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>POPE LEO XIV<\/strong><br><em>It is not enough to be formally faithful to one\u2019s spouse and not commit adultery if, in this relationship, mutual tenderness, listening, respect, caring for her or him, and walking together in a shared project are lacking.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the last Angelus before the liturgical season of Lent, a period during which Pope Leo has recommended fasting not only from food, but also from gossip and idle talk \u2014 holding one\u2019s tongue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Madagascar, the passage of two cyclones has devastated the country. Winds reached 250 km per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":86894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sR4uG2LJ9-Y","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus1502eng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus1502int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86893"}],"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=86893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86899,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86893\/revisions\/86899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}