{"id":234929,"date":"2016-07-28T12:55:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T12:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=234929"},"modified":"2016-07-28T12:55:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T12:55:40","slug":"pope-francis-falls-while-conducting-mass-in-poland-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=234929","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis falls while conducting Mass in Poland [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis fell over at the start of Mass on Thursday while visiting Poland\u2019s holiest icon, the Black Madonna of Jasna Gora.<\/p>\n<p>His stumble took place in front of a congregation of thousands and a television audience of millions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/624246174001\/82f79524-152c-485f-bcb0-09197a216c87_default\/index.html?videoId=5056861064001\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Francis suffers from sciatica, a medical condition in which pain sometimes shoots down the leg from the lower back.<\/p>\n<p>The 79-year-old was helped up by aides after tripping on a step and did not appear to be injured &#8211;\u00a0conducting Mass as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Francis urged Poland to remain united over issues such as the\u00a0refugee crisis, praying people have &#8220;the desire to leave behind all past wrongs and wounds, and to build fellowship for all, without ever yielding to the temptation to withdraw or to domineer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Mass was held in celebration of the 1,050th anniversary this year of the Poland&#8217;s acceptance of Roman Catholicism.<\/p>\n<p>The main event is an international gathering of Catholic youth in Krakow which has sometimes been dubbed the \u201cCatholic Woodstock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Independent\/UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis fell over at the start of Mass on Thursday while visiting Poland\u2019s holiest icon, the Black Madonna of Jasna Gora. His stumble took place in front of a congregation of thousands and a television audience of millions. Francis suffers from sciatica, a medical condition in which pain sometimes shoots down the leg from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234929","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}