{"id":6692,"date":"2015-11-23T05:31:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T05:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2015-11-23T05:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T05:31:51","slug":"christmas-this-year-is-charade-as-whole-world-is-at-war-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6692","title":{"rendered":"Christmas this year is &#8220;Charade&#8221; as whole world is at war &#8211; Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pope-frances.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6227\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pope-frances.jpg\" alt=\"pope frances\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>Pope Francis told churchgoers that Christmas this year is going to be a \u201ccharade\u201d because \u201cthe whole world is at war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff put this holiday season in perspective during mass at the Basilica di Santa Maria last week. His speech comes after a rash of notable violent incidents, including the now infamous terrorist attacks in Paris, as \u201cwe are close to Christmas. There will be lights, there will be parties, bright trees, even Nativity scenes \u2013 all decked out \u2013 while the world continues to wage war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all a charade. The world has not understood the way of peace. The whole world is at war,\u201d Pope Francis said. \u201cA war can be justified, so to speak, with many, many reasons, but when all the world as it is today, at war, piecemeal though that war may be\u2014a little here, a little there\u2014there is no justification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis also pointed to the \u201cinnocent victims\u201d of war, calling for compassion for bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat shall remain in the wake of this war, in the midst of which we are living now?\u201d Pope Francis asked. \u201cWhat shall remain? Ruins, thousands of children without education, so many innocent victims, and lots of money in the pockets of arms dealers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[Yahoo]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis told churchgoers that Christmas this year is going to be a \u201ccharade\u201d because \u201cthe whole world is at war.\u201d The pontiff put this holiday season in perspective during mass at the Basilica di Santa Maria last week. His speech comes after a rash of notable violent incidents, including the now infamous terrorist attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-6692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-pope-francis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pope-frances.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1JW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6692\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}