{"id":41803,"date":"2014-08-25T16:36:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=41803"},"modified":"2014-08-25T16:36:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T16:36:10","slug":"pope-endorses-sept-1-interreligious-peace-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=41803","title":{"rendered":"Pope endorses Sept. 1 interreligious peace match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is backing an inter-religious soccer match that will gather greats from around the globe and is aimed at promoting peace and raising money for at-risk kids.<\/p>\n<p>Former Argentina great Javier Zanetti, who spent 19 seasons with Inter before retiring, said the idea for the Sept. 1 match at the Olympic Stadium in Rome arose during an audience he had with Francis last year.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference Monday, Zanetti said: &#8220;The most important thing isn&#8217;t the match, but the message of peace that the pope wants to give the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Argentina coach Gerardo Martino and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger will put together teams featuring Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist players. Among those who have signed up: Lionel Messi, Filippo Inzaghi, Samuel Eto&#8217;o.<\/p>\n<p>Francis isn&#8217;t expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0nzherald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is backing an inter-religious soccer match that will gather greats from around the globe and is aimed at promoting peace and raising money for at-risk kids. Former Argentina great Javier Zanetti, who spent 19 seasons with Inter before retiring, said the idea for the Sept. 1 match at the Olympic Stadium in Rome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13550,"comment_status":"closed","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":[14],"class_list":["post-41803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41803","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=41803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}