{"id":31795,"date":"2019-02-04T19:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31795"},"modified":"2019-02-04T19:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:22:36","slug":"pope-francis-makes-first-papal-visit-to-arab-gulf-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31795","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis makes first papal visit to Arab Gulf state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/03\/14\/world\/pope-francis-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Francis<\/a> has arrived in the United Arab Emirates, making him the first pontiff to visit an Arab Gulf state.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a video address from the Vatican on Thursday, Francis said the trip marks &#8220;a new page in the history of relations between religions, confirming that we are brothers and sisters, even though we are different.&#8221; The overwhelming majority of Emiratis are Muslim, but the country hosts a large expatriate population, some 1.2 million of whom are Christian.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The majority of the UAE&#8217;s Christians are Indians and Filipinos.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Pope Francis has arrived in the United Arab Emirates, making him the first pontiff to visit an Arab Gulf state.In a video address from the Vatican on Thursday, Francis said the trip marks &#8220;a new page in the history of relations between religions, confirming that we are brothers and sisters, even though we are different.&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795","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=31795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}