{"id":38420,"date":"2024-12-13T00:26:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=38420"},"modified":"2024-12-13T00:26:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T21:26:13","slug":"palestinian-president-meets-vatican-officials-to-address-urgent-needs-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/palestinian-president-meets-vatican-officials-to-address-urgent-needs-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian President Meets Vatican Officials to Address &#8220;Urgent Needs&#8221; in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Pope Francis met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Vatican on Thursday, their first direct meeting in three years. This comes at a time when the Pope has become increasingly critical of Israel&#8217;s military campaign in Gaza.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Vatican, without delving into details, stated: &#8220;Pope Francis and Abbas held private talks for half an hour,&#8221; according to Reuters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A statement noted that Abbas later met with senior diplomats of the Catholic Church to discuss &#8220;the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where it is hoped that a ceasefire can be reached and all hostages released as soon as possible.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Abbas expressed gratitude to the Pope for his &#8220;positions supporting the achievement of a just peace in Palestine based on a two-state solution, a ceasefire in Gaza, and the delivery of aid to the Strip.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Vatican on Thursday, their first direct meeting in three years. This comes at a time when the Pope has become increasingly critical of Israel&#8217;s military campaign in Gaza. The Vatican, without delving into details, stated: &#8220;Pope Francis and Abbas held private talks for half an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38421,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38420\/revisions\/38421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}