{"id":36067,"date":"2012-12-06T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_benedict_xvi_appeals_for_an_end_to_violence_in_dr_congo\/"},"modified":"2012-12-06T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:15:17","slug":"pope_benedict_xvi_appeals_for_an_end_to_violence_in_dr_congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36067","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI appeals for an end to violence in DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The humanitarian crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was top of Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s concerns this Wednesday as he began his greetings in Italian with another appeal for aid for the people of the nation, the scene of armed clashes and violence. Emer McCarthy reports:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA large part of the population lacks the primary means of subsistence\u201d\u009d said the Pope, adding that \u201cthousands of residents have been forced to flee their homes to seek refuge elsewhere\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.va\/en\/news\/pope-appeal-for-the-democratic-republic-of-congo\">Read and listen to it all<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/visnews-en.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/appeal-for-end-to-violence-in.html\">there is more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humanitarian crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was top of Pope Benedict XVI\u2019s concerns this Wednesday as he began his greetings in Italian with another appeal for aid for the people of the nation, the scene of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36067\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,143,100,144,154,151,636,88,108,553,364,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-foreign-relations","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-republic-of-congo","category-roman-catholic","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067","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=36067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}