{"id":16178,"date":"2011-12-14T10:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16178"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:43:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T15:43:32","slug":"pope-to-visit-cuba-and-mexico-before-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/pope-to-visit-cuba-and-mexico-before-easter","title":{"rendered":"Pope To Visit Cuba and Mexico Before Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16179\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16179\" title=\"cathedral-cuba\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cathedral-cuba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cathedral-cuba.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cathedral-cuba-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathedral in Havana, Cuba. Photo Franklin Reyes \/ AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pope Benedict XVI said that he plans to visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter next year, and prayed that God would guide Latin Americans in \u201cbuilding a society based on the development of good, the triumph of love and the spread of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff gave no specific dates for the visit as he celebrated mass in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in honor of Mexico\u2019s Virgin of Guadalupe. The Easter week celebrations, which traditionally require a pope\u2019s presence in the Vatican, start April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Several unofficial news reports have previously said the pope would visit Cuba and Mexico March 23-28. But there has been no word on how many days he might spend in each country or what cities he might visit.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban Conference of Bishops Monday welcomed the pontiff\u2019s comment \u201cwith much happiness and hope\u201d but gave no details on the trip, first announced by the Vatican on Nov. 10 as a papal \u201cdesire.\u201d The 84-year-old pope appears to be in frail health.<\/p>\n<p>In Miami, the Catholic Church said it welcomed the confirmation of Benedict XVI\u2019s visit as an endorsement of the pastoral work carried out by its counterpart on the island in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[84,171],"class_list":["post-16178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-cuba","tag-religion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}