{"id":3034,"date":"2009-03-18T23:58:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T22:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2009-03-20T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:00:08","slug":"pope-benedict-in-cameroon-and-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=3034","title":{"rendered":"Pope in Cameroon and Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"attribute-mainstory\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rcdow.org.uk\/cms_images\/rszpope3215200642331.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pope Benedict XVI\" \/>Pope Benedict is visiting Cameroon and Angola in an effort to foster hope and reconciliation ahead of the Africa Synod to be held at the Vatican later this year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s his first visit to Africa as Pope, although he did visit the continent &#8211; the Democratic Republic of Congo &#8211; as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1987. This is the third Papal visit to Cameroon &#8211; the second to Angola. The Holy Father&#8217;s predecessor, Pope John Paul II visited Cameroon in 1985 and 1995 and Angola in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon is reported to have five million practicing Catholics of its 17 million population. Angola has some 8.6 million Catholics from a population of 16.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of African Bishops in Rome is scheduled for October will have the theme &#8222;The Church in Africa at the Service of Reconciliation, Justice and Peace.&#8220;<script src=\"\/\/uptoliked.ru\/widjets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict is visiting Cameroon and Angola in an effort to foster hope and reconciliation ahead of the Africa Synod to be held at the Vatican later this year. It&#8217;s&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=3034\">Pokra\u010dova\u0165 v \u010d\u00edtan\u00ed <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}