{"id":9248,"date":"2013-07-22T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pope-francis-arrives-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T15:17:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:17:38","slug":"pope-francis-arrives-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pope-francis-arrives-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis Arrives in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3292 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/f-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Pope Francis has arrived in Brazil on his first trip abroad since becoming head of the Catholic Church in March.}}<\/p>\n<p>The first Latin American Pope touched down at Rio de Janeiro airport on Monday afternoon and was greeted by President Dilma Rousseff.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina-born pontiff has travelled to Brazil to attend the Roman Catholic World Youth Day festival.<\/p>\n<p>En route, the Pope told reporters that the global crisis risked creating a lost generation of jobless youth.<\/p>\n<p>As he left the Alitalia plane, he was welcomed by President Rousseff to cheers and applause from the waiting crowd. A choir sang and he was presented with a bouquet of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope waved before being taken by motorcade to the centre of Rio, where large numbers of pilgrims have gathered.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have increased security during the Pope&#8217;s visit, following weeks of nationwide protests against corruption and bad governance.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has refused to use an armoured Popemobile, despite requests from Brazilian officials. Some 22,000 security staff will be on duty during his visit.<\/p>\n<p>More than a million young Catholics are expected to gather in Rio for World Youth Day, which takes place every two years, and is a celebration of the Catholic faith.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope is due to lead a service on Copacabana beach, and visit a shanty town.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters on his flight from Rome, the Pope said &#8220;we run the risk of having a generation that hasn&#8217;t worked,&#8221; even though work confers dignity.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticised what he said was a &#8220;culture&#8221; of socially rejecting the elderly who were &#8220;thrown away&#8221; as if they had nothing to offer.<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Pope Francis has arrived in Brazil on his first trip abroad since becoming head of the Catholic Church in March.}} The first Latin American Pope touched down at Rio de Janeiro airport on Monday afternoon and was greeted by President Dilma Rousseff. The Argentina-born pontiff has travelled to Brazil to attend the Roman Catholic World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9248"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}