{"id":168619,"date":"2018-07-02T00:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168619"},"modified":"2018-07-02T00:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:28:45","slug":"pope-francis-decries-new-attacks-in-syrias-daraa-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/02\/pope-francis-decries-new-attacks-in-syrias-daraa-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis decries new attacks in Syria&#8217;s Daraa province"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_164473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164473\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/14945004965_a23936b18d_z-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-164473\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/14945004965_a23936b18d_z-1.jpg\" alt=\"In remarks Sunday at the Vatican, Francis cited Syria's Daraa province, where a government offensive that began June 19 has killed scores of people and forced 50,000 to flee. (Photo By: Republic of Korea,Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/14945004965_a23936b18d_z-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/14945004965_a23936b18d_z-1-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In remarks Sunday at the Vatican, Francis cited Syria&#8217;s Daraa province, where a government offensive that began June 19 has killed scores of people and forced 50,000 to flee. (Photo By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/koreanet\/\">Republic of Korea<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/koreanet\/14945004965\/in\/photolist-oLD4ip-ot5wd9-oLDsfM-fekwNw-6NMfRr-ipa6hz-nmmg2G-jRZ6Y6-ijD5mb-fjnN7w-qxc7i9-obEWAU-fhxMkk-e3Sz43-oHzetr-fgRydi-q9aDVx-qxcpff-9dFB1N-feQPW4-fhockQ-RsWzVk-orsLTt-iznPD7-fenmJo-iuLyfU-ff5ZSb-9dCCQp-pSZzHB-fh9qkQ-e2XPGc-e2ZC8c-fiV5Rt-fj8A7H-fja5hL-fj7YWM-qPFVdy-Y3zm9w-fhRdp7-fgTco6-7cnw6S-fj7WZi-e5bqVe-jp8ZrJ-qPGbs1-fdBjF9-77MJCR-fgBkj4-ff9nYp-iKAN5X\">Flickr,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VATICAN CITY \u2013 Pope Francis has decried intensified attacks in southern Syria, asking that people there be spared more suffering.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks Sunday at the Vatican, Francis cited Syria&#8217;s Daraa province, where a government offensive that began June 19 has killed scores of people and forced 50,000 to flee.<\/p>\n<p>Francis lamented that \u201cthe military actions of recent days have struck even schools and hospitals and triggered thousands of new refugees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He renewed his appeal for peace so that Syrians, after years of fighting, could be \u201cspared further suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pope noted that Saturday he will make a \u201cpilgrimage of peace and unity\u201d to Bari in southern Italy. There he&#8217;ll pray and reflect with the heads of Christian churches and communities from the Middle East, a region where \u201cso many brothers and sisters in the faith continue to suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY \u2013 Pope Francis has decried intensified attacks in southern Syria, asking that people there be spared more suffering. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":164473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[52442,2300,2248],"class_list":["post-168619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-daraa","tag-pope-francis","tag-syria","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}