{"id":26539,"date":"2011-07-21T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T22:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/somalia-is-the-most-severe-hum\/"},"modified":"2011-07-21T18:10:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T22:10:59","slug":"somalia-is-the-most-severe-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/somalia-is-the-most-severe-hum\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia is the most severe humanitarian emergency in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; \"><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height: 17px; \"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/drought2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"drought2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/07\/drought2-thumb-250x250-9599.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>In his Sunday prayers Pope Benedict appealed on behalf of the victims of the severe drought in the Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia.&nbsp; He asked Christians to show solidarity for the millions that face death by starvation in the worst conditions there in a century. Rain is not expected until October.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 17px; \">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 17px; \">On July 14th, UNICEF called the situation in the Horn of Africa &#8220;the most severe humanitarian emergency in the world &#8230; with Somalia being the epicenter of the crisis.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 17px; \">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 17px; \">&#8220;Innumerable people are fleeing from that tremendous famine in search of food and help,&#8221; the Pope told the crowd gathered in the courtyard of his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. &#8220;I hope that international mobilization will increase to send help in time to these brothers and sisters of ours, already sorely tried, among whom are so many children.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 17px; \">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 17px; \">Benedict&#8217;s prayer was: &#8220;May our solidarity and the concrete support of all people of good will, not be lacking to these suffering populations.&#8221;&nbsp; As a first expression of its concern, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/pontifical_councils\/corunum\/index.htm\">Pontifical Council Cor Unum<\/a> has sent a donation of $70,000.<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Sunday prayers Pope Benedict appealed on behalf of the victims of the severe drought in the Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia.&nbsp; He asked Christians to show solidarity for the millions that face death by starvation in the worst conditions there in a century. Rain is not expected until October. &nbsp; On July 14th, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/somalia-is-the-most-severe-hum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Somalia is the most severe humanitarian emergency in the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1955,32081,1957,2569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}