{"id":44268,"date":"2014-05-26T02:35:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T02:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_ap_sun-_evening_story_on_pope_franciss_holy_land_visit-pope_gives_pales\/"},"modified":"2014-05-26T02:35:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T02:35:12","slug":"an_ap_sun-_evening_story_on_pope_franciss_holy_land_visit-pope_gives_pales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44268","title":{"rendered":"An AP Sun. evening Story on Pope Francis&#39;s Holy Land visit&#8211;Pope gives Palestinians boost of support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis delivered a powerful boost of support to the Palestinians during a Holy Land pilgrimage Sunday, repeatedly backing their statehood aspirations, praying solemnly at Israel&#8217;s controversial separation barrier and calling the stalemate in peace efforts &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an unscripted move, Francis arranged a meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian presidents at the Vatican next month. The meeting, while largely symbolic, shows how the pope has sought to transform his immensely popular appeal into a moral force for peace.<\/p>\n<p>On the second day of a three-day swing through the region, the pope arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christianity, before heading to Israel for the final leg of his visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_289563\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=szylChE7\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis delivered a powerful boost of support to the Palestinians during a Holy Land pilgrimage Sunday, repeatedly backing their statehood aspirations, praying solemnly at Israel&#8217;s controversial separation barrier and calling the stalemate in peace efforts &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221; In an unscripted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44268\">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":[39,50,42,119,565,558,203,154,637,108,364,556,567,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-globalization","category-israel","category-jordan","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-syria","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44268","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=44268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}