{"id":39561,"date":"2015-01-23T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T04:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=39561"},"modified":"2015-01-23T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T04:17:37","slug":"39561","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/23\/39561\/","title":{"rendered":"PH to give excess papal visit budget to pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39453\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-tacloban-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39453\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-tacloban-2-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis visits a family of survivors in Tacloban (Malacacang Photo Bureau)\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-tacloban-2-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-tacloban-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis visits a family of survivors in Tacloban (Malacacang Photo Bureau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8211;To help finance the Vatican&#8217;s charitable projects, the Philippines will turnover\u00a0the excess money collected for the papal visit to Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas yesterday told the media about the decision to giveaway left-over funds to add to Vatican&#8217;s budget for the Pope&#8217;s charitable works.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop added that the move was discussed and made by the bishops without any order from the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>He however, added that there is no definite figure yet as to the total collection left from the funds used during the Pope&#8217;s visit from Jan. 15 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still paying our bills,\u201d he said during a press conference at the end of the CBCP\u2019s 100th plenary assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop also added that the LED screens and sound system consumed much of their budget.<\/p>\n<p>This was because the screens and sound systems were installed in different venues during the Pope&#8217;s 5-day visit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8211;To help finance the Vatican&#8217;s charitable projects, the Philippines will turnover\u00a0the excess money collected for the papal visit to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":39453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39561","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\/39561","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=39561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}