{"id":120664,"date":"2022-07-24T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T17:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/df.news\/?p=120664"},"modified":"2022-07-24T20:10:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T17:10:32","slug":"pope-has-great-desire-to-visit-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/2022\/07\/24\/pope-has-great-desire-to-visit-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope has &#8220;great desire&#8221; to visit Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"newsHeading\">Pope Francis said he yearned to visit Ukraine, in his efforts to try and bring an end to a five-month-old war that he has repeatedly decried.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I have a great desire to go to Kyiv,&#8221; the pope said when asked about a possible future trip to Ukraine. He was speaking to journalists on the papal plane on his way from Rome to Canada,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/pope-francis-leaves-rome-canada-apology-tour-2022-07-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters\u00a0<\/a>reports, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-society\/3535895-pope-has-great-desire-to-visit-kyiv.html\">Ukrinform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-yield-master-placement-inserted=\"\">In an interview earlier this month, the pontiff said he hoped to be able to go to Moscow and Kyiv soon after his trip to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>No pope has ever visited Moscow, it is noted. Pope Francis has repeatedly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine: last month he implicitly accused Russia of waging a \u201ccruel and senseless war of aggression.\u201d After the interview, the Kremlin said it had not had substantive contact with the Vatican regarding a potential visit while Ukraine renewed its invitation to the pontiff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis said he yearned to visit Ukraine, in his efforts to try and bring an end to a five-month-old war that he has repeatedly decried. &#8220;I have a great desire to go to Kyiv,&#8221; the pope said when asked about a possible future trip to Ukraine. He was speaking to journalists on the papal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5148,5142],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-120664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-church-en","8":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/df.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1___5348_650x410.jpg?fit=650%2C410&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/df.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}