{"id":4376,"date":"2023-02-01T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T15:36:01","slug":"pope-francis-in-dr-congo-a-million-celebrate-kinshasa-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2023\/02\/01\/pope-francis-in-dr-congo-a-million-celebrate-kinshasa-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis in DR Congo: A million celebrate Kinshasa Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4377\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4377\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/20230131T1100-POPE-CONGO-OFFICIALS-1755465-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/20230131T1100-POPE-CONGO-OFFICIALS-1755465-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/20230131T1100-POPE-CONGO-OFFICIALS-1755465-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/20230131T1100-POPE-CONGO-OFFICIALS-1755465.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis and Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi attend a welcome ceremony at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa, Congo, Jan. 31, 2023. (CNS photo\/Paul Haring)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pope Francis has celebrated one of his biggest Masses, with around a million attendees in Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s capital, estimates say.<\/p>\n<p>Huge crowds started to gather in Kinshasa well before dawn, including scores of schoolgirls dressed in white who danced along the Pope&#8217;s route.<\/p>\n<p>A public holiday was declared, so as many people as possible could attend.<\/p>\n<p>Around half of DR Congo&#8217;s population is Catholic &#8211; the largest Catholic community in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>It is more than 37 years since a pope had visited the mineral-rich but conflict-ridden country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Pope Francis has celebrated one of his biggest Masses, with around a million attendees in Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s capital, estimates say. Huge crowds started to gather in Kinshasa well before dawn, including scores of schoolgirls dressed in white who danced along the Pope&#8217;s route. A public holiday was declared, so as many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4378,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}