{"id":109681,"date":"2015-04-19T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=109681"},"modified":"2015-04-19T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T13:05:45","slug":"pope-francis-urges-action-on-migrant-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=109681","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis urges action on migrant deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pope Francis, speaking after some 700 migrants were feared dead in the Mediterranean, on Sunday appealed to the international community to take swift and decisive action to avoid more tragedies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Nu811ZM9WFzrNN9xk3AQBSJGntRDgpVs&#8221;]&#8221;They are men and women like us, our brothers seeking a better life, starving, persecuted, wounded, exploited, victims of war. They were looking for a better life,&#8221; he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter&#8217;s Square for his Sunday noon address.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Faced with such a tragedy, I express my most heartfelt pain and promise to remember the victims and their families in prayer,&#8221; he said, departing from his prepared text.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I make a heartfelt appeal to the international community to react decisively and quickly to see to it that such tragedies are not repeated,&#8221; he said, before asking the crowd to pray &#8220;for these brothers and sisters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest disaster happened when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in one of the worst disasters seen in the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, speaking after some 700 migrants were feared dead in the Mediterranean, on Sunday appealed to the international community to take swift and decisive action to avoid more tragedies. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Nu811ZM9WFzrNN9xk3AQBSJGntRDgpVs&#8221;]&#8221;They are men and women like us, our brothers seeking a better life, starving, persecuted, wounded, exploited, victims of war. They were looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":109682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-109681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}