{"id":3198,"date":"2014-12-25T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2014-12-25T13:10:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T13:10:01","slug":"pope-wishes-christmas-hope-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/pope-wishes-christmas-hope-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope wishes Christmas hope and peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3199\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pope.jpg\" alt=\"Pope\" width=\"400\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pope.jpg 400w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Pope-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Pope Francis is focusing his attention on all those weeping in the world this Christmas, singling out the refugees, hostages and all those suffering in conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine.<br \/>\nOn a day that brings joy to little ones in much of the world, Francis expressed anguish for children who are victims of violence, including the recent terrorist attack on a Pakistani military school, or those who are trafficked or forced to be soldiers.<br \/>\nTens of thousands of Romans and tourists in St. Peter\u2019s Square listened Thursday as the pontiff delivered the Catholic church\u2019s traditional \u201cUrbi et Orbi\u201d (Latin for \u201cto the city and to the world\u201c) Christmas message from the central balcony of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica.<br \/>\nFrancis said: \u201ctruly there are so many tears this Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/pope-wishes-christmas-hope-and-peace\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is focusing his attention on all those weeping in the world this Christmas, singling out the refugees, hostages and all those suffering in conflicts in the Middle East, Africa and Ukraine. On a day that brings joy to little ones in much of the world, Francis expressed anguish for children who are victims &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}