{"id":11206,"date":"2019-09-10T08:44:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T05:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2019-09-10T08:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T05:46:29","slug":"pope-francis-sends-greetings-to-president-ugandans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/10\/pope-francis-sends-greetings-to-president-ugandans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis sends greetings to President, Ugandans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

His\nHoliness Pope Francis has sent greeting and blessings to President Yoweri Museveni\nand the people of Uganda as he headed down to Mozambique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs\nI overfly Uganda, on my way to Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius, I send\ngreetings to Your Excellency and your fellow citizens the assurance of my\nprayers for peace and harmony. I invoke abundant blessings upon all of you, he\nsaid in a message he conveyed through the control tower at Entebbe\nInternational Airport as he overflew the Uganda airspace on Wednesday September\n4, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pontiff is on a three-country tour of\nAfrica, where he plans to emphasize the continent\u2019s role in the future of the\nRoman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pope Francis concluded his\ntrip to Mozambique on Friday, his 31st trip abroad and his return to\nsub-Saharan Africa \u2014 with a visit to HIV-AIDS patients and an open-air Mass\nfocused on reconciliation and peace. He later visited Madagascar and Mauritius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Museveni\nacknowledged the greetings and said he was happy to receive the message from\nthe Pope and to share it with Ugandans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His Holiness Pope Francis has sent greeting and blessings to President Yoweri Museveni and the people of Uganda as he headed down to Mozambique. \u201cAs I overfly Uganda, on my way to Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius, I send greetings to Your Excellency and your fellow citizens the assurance of my prayers for peace and harmony. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":11209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11210,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions\/11210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}