{"id":237828,"date":"2019-11-19T19:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237828"},"modified":"2019-11-19T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T00:26:43","slug":"faithful-asked-to-pray-for-success-of-pope-francis-asia-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/19\/faithful-asked-to-pray-for-success-of-pope-francis-asia-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Faithful asked to pray for success of Pope Francis\u2019 Asia trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_147169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147169\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-147169\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Pope-Francis-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis is set to arrive in Thailand on Wednesday where he will stay for three days. (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; A Catholic prelate on Tuesday urged the faithful to pray for the safety and success of the visit of Pope Francis to Thailand and Japan starting this week.<\/p>\n<p>Bataan Bishop Ruperto Santos assured that they are one with the people particularly members of the clergy of the two Asian countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, in solidarity with them as our brothers and sisters in faith and as Asian neighbors, let us pray for the safety of Holy Father&#8217;s travel there and the successes of his pastoral visits with unending graces to all,\u201d Santos said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Santos, chairman of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines \u2013 Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant Peoples\u2019 (CBCP-ECMI), also asked Filipinos there particularly in Japan, to participate in the activities during the visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have appeal to our OFWs especially in Japan with their chaplains and pastoral workers to take this as God&#8217;s graces and gifts to serve as volunteers in their Archdioceses and chaplaincies, to kindly ask their employers to allow to attend the Holy Father&#8217;s holy masses, and especially those who are free to participate and offer their time, talents and even treasures for this grace-filled and historic visits of the Holy Father,\u201d Santos added.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis is set to arrive in Thailand on Wednesday where he will stay for three days.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second visit of a Pontiff to the Southeast Asian nation in over 35 years, the first one was St. Pope John Paul II in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>He will then visit Japan from November 23 to 26 and will celebrate masses in Nagasaki and Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; A Catholic prelate on Tuesday urged the faithful to pray for the safety and success of the visit of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":147169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237828","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237829,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237828\/revisions\/237829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}