{"id":24053,"date":"2018-12-02T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24053"},"modified":"2018-12-02T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T19:23:00","slug":"pope-lights-candle-to-promote-peace-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24053","title":{"rendered":"Pope lights candle to promote peace in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"30.4341129492\">\n<p><span class=\"hidden-title\">Pope lights candle to promote peace in Syria<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden-url\">\/node\/1414491\/middle-east<\/span><\/p>\n<article itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Article\" class=\"entry-article\" data-nid=\"1414491\" readability=\"26.4863258026\">\n<div class=\"grid-x entry-article-inner align-center\">\n<div class=\"cell large-shrink\">\n<div class=\"entry-aside-info stick-aside-info show-for-large\" data-nid=\"1414491\">\n<p>\nUpdated 3 min 57 sec ago <\/p>\n<p>\n<time>December 02, 2018<span> 00:00<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"views-count-placeholder nid-1414491\"><i class=\"icomoon-icon icon-views\"><\/i><span>0<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cell large-auto\" readability=\"13.8304314913\">\n<div class=\"printable-area\" readability=\"23\">\n<h2>Pope lights candle to promote peace in Syria<\/h2>\n<div class=\"img-area show-for-printable-area\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/n_670_395\/public\/main-image\/2018\/12\/02\/1387666-1455960866.jpg?itok=8IOYuzCs\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta hide-for-large no-print\">\n<p>\nUpdated 3 min 57 sec ago <\/p>\n<p>\n<time>December 02, 2018<span> 00:00<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nVATICAN CITY: Pope Francis lit a candle decorated with the faces of Syrian children suffering from war from his balcony overlooking St. Peter\u2019s Square on Sunday, launching a global campaign calling for peace in the country \u201cmartyred by a war that has lasted for nearly eight years.\u201d<br \/>Francis told believers gathered in St. Peter\u2019s Square on the first Sunday of the Advent season leading up to Christmas that \u201cAdvent is a time of hope.\u201d<br \/>Lifting the candle to the window, Francis prayed that \u201cThese flames, and many flames of hope, disperse the darkness of war.\u201d<br \/>\u201cLet\u2019s pray and help the Christians to remain in Syria and the Middle East as witnesses of mercy, of forgiveness and of reconciliation. May the flames of hope also reach those who are enduring conflict and war in these days in other parts of the world, near and far,\u201d the pope said. He urged those who foment war and make arms for conflicts to have a change of heart.<br \/>The lighting of the candle with the images of some 40 Syrian children, mostly from Aleppo, launched a global campaign for Syria, which the organization Aid to the Church in Need said involved over 50,000 children of different religions from war-torn Syrian cities.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope lights candle to promote peace in Syria \/node\/1414491\/middle-east Updated 3 min 57 sec ago December 02, 2018 00:00 0 Pope lights candle to promote peace in Syria Updated 3 min 57 sec ago December 02, 2018 00:00 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis lit a candle decorated with the faces of Syrian children suffering from war&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}