{"id":117646,"date":"2022-09-14T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/god-does-not-back-war-pope-says-in-apparent-criticism-of-russian-patriarch"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:50:57","slug":"god-does-not-back-war-pope-says-in-apparent-criticism-of-russian-patriarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/god-does-not-back-war-pope-says-in-apparent-criticism-of-russian-patriarch","title":{"rendered":"God does not back war, pope says in apparent criticism of Russian patriarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NUR-SULTAN, Sept 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Pope Francis said on Wednesday that God does not guide religions towards war, an implicit criticism of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who backs the invasion of Ukraine and has boycotted a conference of faith leaders. On his second day in Kazakhstan, Francis addressed the Seventh Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, a meeting that brings together Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and other faiths. Kirill was to have attended, but pulled out. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) sent a delegation headed by its number two, Metropolitan Anthony, who later briefly met the pope. &#8220;God is peace. He guides us always in the way of peace, never that of war,&#8221; Francis said, speaking at a huge round table in the Independence Palace, a massive modern structure made of steel and glass in the capital of the former Soviet republic. &#8220;Let us commit ourselves, then, even more to insisting on the need for resolving conflicts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUR-SULTAN, Sept 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Pope Francis said on Wednesday that God does not guide religions towards war, an implicit criticism of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, who backs the invasion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,291],"tags":[69,55],"class_list":["post-117646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-religion","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}