{"id":34601,"date":"2012-09-16T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_pope_celebrates_open-air_mass_on_beirut_seafront\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:20:21","slug":"bbc_pope_celebrates_open-air_mass_on_beirut_seafront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34601","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Pope celebrates open-air Mass on Beirut seafront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The visit has coincided with anti-US protests across the region over a film deemed insulting to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope appealed for the crowd to &#8220;be peacemakers&#8221; and prayed for an end to violence in neighbouring Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;May God grant to your country, to Syria and to the Middle East the gift of peaceful hearts, the silencing of weapons and the cessation of all violence,&#8221; he said at the end of his Mass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-19614521\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visit has coincided with anti-US protests across the region over a film deemed insulting to Islam. The Pope appealed for the crowd to &#8220;be peacemakers&#8221; and prayed for an end to violence in neighbouring Syria. &#8220;May God grant to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34601\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,563,183,203,154,636,108,364,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lebanon","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}