{"id":81343,"date":"2020-03-11T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=81343"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:06:08","slug":"pope-tells-priests-to-have-the-courage-to-go-out-and-meet-coronavirus-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pope-tells-priests-to-have-the-courage-to-go-out-and-meet-coronavirus-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope tells priests to \u2018have the courage\u2019 to go out and meet coronavirus sick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Tuesday to \u201chave the courage\u201d to go out and help those sickened by the novel coronavirus, hours after Italy was placed on a nationwide lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet us pray to the Lord also for our priests, that they may have the courage to go out and visit the sick. and to accompany the medical staff and volunteers in the work they do,\u201d the pontiff said during a mass in Vatican City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Italian government has asked for people not to travel if they can avoid it and to avoid contact with the sick.Officials passed a decree late Monday extending nationwide restrictive measures that had been put in place at the weekend in the hardest-hit northern regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The restrictions including checkpoints on roads and in railway stations are set to remain until April 3.Italy is the epicentre of the European virus outbreak with more than 9,000 cases and 463 deaths so far.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Tuesday to \u201chave the courage\u201d to go out and help those sickened by the novel coronavirus, hours after Italy was placed on a nationwide lockdown. \u201cLet us pray to the Lord also for our priests, that they may have the courage to go out and visit the sick. and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81345,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81343\/revisions\/81345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}