{"id":29527,"date":"2013-12-04T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=29527"},"modified":"2013-12-05T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T13:58:15","slug":"pope-calls-for-prayer-for-kidnapped-syrian-nuns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/pope-calls-for-prayer-for-kidnapped-syrian-nuns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope calls for prayer for kidnapped Syrian nuns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to a blog I made the other day, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/islamist-rebels-control-monastery-of-st-thekla-maaloula-syria\/\"><strong>Islamist rebels control Monastery of St Thecla, Maaloula, Syria<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; there is this call for spiritual closeness, prayer, for the plight of the Syrian nuns and some lay collaborators by Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>Read the brief <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2013\/12\/04\/pope_calls_for_prayer_for_nuns_kidnapped_in_syria\/en1-752530\"><strong>note here<\/strong><\/a>. Listen to the brief \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media01.radiovaticana.va\/audiomp3\/00402855.MP3\"><strong>Vatican Radio report is here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2013\/12\/03\/syrian-bishop-says-nuns-kidnapping-has-shocked-christians\/\"><strong>perspective of Bishop Antoine Audo<\/strong><\/a> of Aleppo (Audo is the bishop for the Chaldeans).<\/p>\n<p>A few other reports have been filed on AsiaNews.it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Pope-appeals-for-nuns-abducted-in-Syria-and-for-all-the-people-kidnapped-during-the-conflict-29718.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Maaloula-sisters-in-Yabrud,-Greek-Orthodox-Patriarchate-reports-29720.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mary, Queen of Peace, pray for the nuns and all Christians in Syria.<br \/>\nSaint Ephrem the Syrian, pray for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow-up to a blog I made the other day, &#8220;Islamist rebels control Monastery of St Thecla, Maaloula, Syria,&#8221; there is this call for spiritual closeness, prayer, for the plight of the Syrian nuns and some lay collaborators by Pope Francis. Read the brief note here. Listen to the brief \u00a0Vatican Radio report is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/pope-calls-for-prayer-for-kidnapped-syrian-nuns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pope calls for prayer for kidnapped Syrian nuns<\/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":[14],"tags":[32107,3186,1931],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29527"}],"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=29527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29559,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29527\/revisions\/29559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}