{"id":1411,"date":"2018-12-20T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:23:23","slug":"pope-100-right-world-looks-the-other-way-at-christian-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: &#8220;World looks the other way at Christian persecution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad38268a8200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope francis 3\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad38268a8200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad38268a8200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 160px;\" title=\"Pope francis 3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is from the Catholic online publication, CRUX<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/vatican\/2018\/11\/16\/world-looks-the-other-way-at-christian-persecution-pope-says\/\">Meeting with members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Nov. 16, the pope said that \u201cthe tragic situations of Christians who are persecuted and killed in ever-increasing numbers\u201d is plain to see, even if the world \u201ctoo often turns and looks away.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Christians face not only \u201cmartyrdom in blood\u201d in countries where they are persecuted and killed for the faith, but also a \u201cwhite martyrdom\u201d in democratic countries that try more subtly to stifle religious freedom and expression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">************<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cIt is a good sign that your initiatives in the field of training and health care are open to all, regardless of the communities to which they belong and the religion they profess,\u201d the pope said. \u201cIn this way, you help to pave the way for the knowledge of Christian values, the promotion of interreligious dialogue, mutual respect and mutual understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">However, the pope also emphasized that the order\u2019s main purpose \u201cis the spiritual growth of its members\u201d so that their spiritual lives and works of charity offer a coherent witness to the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Members of the order are not called to provide social and material improvements like \u201ca philanthropic institution,\u201d the pope said, but are called to \u201cplace at the center and as the final goal of your works the evangelical love for your neighbor to bear witness everywhere to the goodness and care with which God loves everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the Catholic online publication, CRUX Meeting with members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Nov. 16, the pope said that \u201cthe tragic situations of Christians who are persecuted and killed in ever-increasing numbers\u201d is plain to see, even if the world \u201ctoo often turns and looks away.\u201d Christians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7676,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}