{"id":36998,"date":"2021-06-28T14:26:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36998"},"modified":"2021-06-28T14:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:26:46","slug":"secretary-blinkens-meeting-with-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36998","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Blinken\u2019s Meeting with Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>06\/28\/2021 09:29 AM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The below is attributable to\u00a0Spokesperson\u00a0Ned Price:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State\u00a0Antony J.\u00a0Blinken\u00a0met\u00a0today\u00a0with\u00a0His Holiness\u00a0Pope Francis in Vatican City.\u00a0\u00a0Secretary\u00a0Blinken\u00a0<wbr><\/wbr>reaffirmed the United States\u2019 commitment to working closely with the Holy See to address global challenges and the needs of the world\u2019s least fortunate and most vulnerable, including refugees and migrants.\u00a0\u00a0The Secretary\u00a0thanked\u00a0Pope Francis for his\u00a0longstanding\u00a0leadership on\u00a0the need to\u00a0care\u00a0for the environment and tackle\u00a0the climate crisis.\u00a0\u00a0The Secretary and Pope Francis also discussed China as well as the humanitarian crises in Lebanon, Syria, the Tigray region of Ethiopia, and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/28\/2021 09:29 AM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36999,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36998\/revisions\/36999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}