{"id":10794,"date":"2021-03-06T06:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=10794"},"modified":"2021-03-06T06:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:39:58","slug":"pope-francis-weapons-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/10794\/pope-francis-weapons-silenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Weapons should be silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Pope Francis: Weapons should be silenced &amp; God\u2019s name should not be used to justify killing and terrorism<\/h4>\n<p><em>The world\u2019s Catholic Leader, Pope Francis, has addressed a delegation of Iraqi diplomats who met in Baghdad to greet him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis stated: I am grateful for the opportunity to come to Iraq, the cradle of civilization. \u201cWe must adhere to the values \u200b\u200bof peace and coexistence,\u201d Pope Francis said. \u201cIraq has suffered a lot from terrorism and sectarian strife,\u201d he said. \u201cThe international community must play a key role in strengthening peace in Iraq and throughout the Middle East,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe learn from racial, religious and cultural diversity. Over the past decades, Iraq has suffered from the catastrophe of wars and the scourge of terrorism.\u201d Pope Francis said that the name of God should not be used to justify killing and terrorism because God created human beings equally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis: Weapons should be silenced &amp; God\u2019s name should not be used to justify killing and terrorism The world\u2019s Catholic Leader, Pope Francis, has addressed a delegation of Iraqi diplomats who met in Baghdad to greet him. Pope Francis stated: I am grateful for the opportunity to come to Iraq, the cradle of civilization. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7448],"tags":[19839,19838,19833,19669],"class_list":["post-10794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-reflection","tag-baghdad","tag-iraqi-diplomats","tag-pope-francis","tag-shia-studies-world-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}