{"id":49042,"date":"2024-03-11T03:49:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49042"},"modified":"2024-03-11T03:49:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T17:49:45","slug":"pope-offers-prayers-calls-for-peace-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49042","title":{"rendered":"Pope offers prayers, calls for peace in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pope Francis on Sunday offered his prayers for Haiti, where criminal gangs have unleashed havoc in recent days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am following with concern and pain the serious crisis affecting Haiti and  the violent episodes that have occurred in recent days,&#8221; the 87-year-old said after his Sunday Angelus prayer. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am close to the Church and to the dear Haitian people who have suffered so much for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He offered prayers for an end to the violence, calling for all sides to work towards peace and reconciliation, &#8220;with the renewed support of the international community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal groups, which already control much of the capital Port-au-Prince as well as roads leading to the rest of the country, have unleashed havoc as they try to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry as leader of the Western hemisphere&#8217;s poorest country.<\/p>\n<p>The unrest has seen 362,000 Haitians internally displaced &#8212; more than half of them children and some forced to move multiple times, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis on Sunday offered his prayers for Haiti, where criminal gangs have unleashed havoc in recent days. &#8220;I am following with concern and pain the serious crisis affecting Haiti and the violent episodes that have occurred in recent days,&#8221; the 87-year-old said after his Sunday Angelus prayer. &#8220;I am close to the Church and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[746,747],"class_list":["post-49042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-uncategorized","tag-calls-for-peace-in-haiti","tag-pope-offers-prayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}