{"id":52433,"date":"2015-11-28T20:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_pope_francis_pays_tribute_to_ugandan_martyrs\/"},"modified":"2015-11-28T20:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T20:05:05","slug":"wsj_pope_francis_pays_tribute_to_ugandan_martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52433","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Pope Francis Pays Tribute to Ugandan Martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis prayed at a shrine honoring Ugandan martyrs who died rather than renounce their faith on Saturday, amid hopes that his presence might ease the unrest that has emerged as the country prepares for next year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>On the fourth of the pontiff\u2019s six-day African tour, he honored a group of Catholic and Anglican martyrs who were burned alive after refusing to renounce their faith in the late 19th century. Earlier in the day, he visited sanctuaries honoring the Catholic and Anglican martyrs in the city of Namugongo and celebrated Mass to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their canonization.<\/p>\n<p>The martyrs\u2019 stories show that \u201cfidelity to God, honesty and integrity of life, and genuine concern for the good of others bring us that peace that the world cannot give,\u201d\u009d the pope said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pope-francis-pays-tribute-to-ugandan-martyrs-1448726203?alg=y\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis prayed at a shrine honoring Ugandan martyrs who died rather than renounce their faith on Saturday, amid hopes that his presence might ease the unrest that has emerged as the country prepares for next year\u2019s election. On the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52433\">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":[36,48,39,42,74,186,396,438,154,184,637,364,110,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-church-of-uganda","category-death-burial-funerals","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic","category-teens-youth","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52433","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=52433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}