{"id":38586,"date":"2015-01-16T00:32:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38586"},"modified":"2015-01-16T00:32:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T16:32:42","slug":"abandoned-children-chosen-to-welcome-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/16\/abandoned-children-chosen-to-welcome-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned children chosen to welcome Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38530\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38530\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-1-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Two homeless kids also welcomed the Pope and gave him flowers upon arrival.\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two homeless kids also welcomed the Pope and gave him flowers upon arrival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Two children from a foundation for abandoned children were selected to welcome Pope Francis to the country on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ten-year-old Mark Angelo Bartolas and nine-year-old Lanie Ortillo will say \u201cBienvenidos Santo Papa!\u201d and hand out the welcoming flowers to the Pope as he arrives at Villamor Airbase.<\/p>\n<p>The children came from Tuloy sa Don Bosco and were chosen to welcome His Holiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will give the flowers to Pope Francis later,\u201d said Bartolas adding that their inclusion in the welcoming committee of the Pope was \u201ca call of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI\u2019m so happy that I have the opportunity to see Pope Francis up close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ortillo said that she would want to embrace the pope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to hug him later,\u201d she said while grinning.<\/p>\n<p>Both Bartolas and Ortillo were abandoned by their parents. They are currently residing in a foster home in Alabang, Muntilupa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope Pope Francis prays for the Filipino people,\u201d shared Bartolas.<\/p>\n<p>Ortillo, meanwhile, said she hopes that Pope Francis will continue his mission of helping more people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Two children from a foundation for abandoned children were selected to welcome Pope Francis to the country on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":38530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586","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=38586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}