{"id":39160,"date":"2015-01-20T00:20:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39160"},"modified":"2015-01-20T00:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:20:59","slug":"pope-francis-asks-for-prayers-anew-in-6th-filipino-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/20\/pope-francis-asks-for-prayers-anew-in-6th-filipino-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis asks for prayers anew in 6th Filipino tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39163\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image3.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"640\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image3-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Upon leaving the Philippines on Monday morning, Pope Francis on the afternoon the same day made a final request to both Filipinos and Sri Lankans via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sa aking mga kaibigan sa Sri Lanka at Pilipinas: Naway pagpalain kayo ng Diyos. Sana\u00b4y patuloy niyo akong ipagdasal,<\/em>\u201d the Pope said on his official Twitter account, @Pontifex hours after his departure from the country.<\/p>\n<p>He earlier tweeted the same sentence in English: \u201cTo my friends in Sri Lanka and the Philippines: May God bless you all! Please pray for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis began his six-day tour of Asia in Sri Lanka\u2014where he was welcomed by elephants\u2014before heading to the Philippines to personally console survivors of typhoon \u201cYolanda\u201d in Tacloban, Leyte.<\/p>\n<p>The Roman Catholic leader\u2019s tweet currently got over 14, 000 retweets as of posting time. Several Filipino netizens also took time to tweet back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you Papa Franciso for being such an inspiration to me and to the whole nation. Please do pray for us as we pray for you,\u201d a certain Angelie (@angelidesu) said in reply.<\/p>\n<p>A girl named Sharina (tbhjustchaerin) promised to pray for Pope as well and thanked him for his visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will (pray for you), Pope. Thank you so much for a very blessed visit. You&#8217;ve strengthen(ened) us. Muschisimas gracias! Maraming maraming salamat po,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has been known to tweet in various languages including Spanish, English, French, German, Arabic, Portugese, Polish, Latin, and just recently, Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>He was earlier named the most influential Twitter user or &#8220;tweep&#8221; in the world, according to a Twiplomacy 2014, a study of how Twitter is being used by world leaders.<\/p>\n<p>He currently has about 5.01 million followers on Twitter since his account was created in February 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Upon leaving the Philippines on Monday morning, Pope Francis on the afternoon the same day made a final &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":39163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160","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=39160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}