{"id":306720,"date":"2017-05-05T07:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T06:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pope-and-i-in-cairo\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T07:26:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T06:26:36","slug":"pope-and-i-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pope-and-i-in-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope and I in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In Cairo, Pope Francis, once again, did what he usually does best: he snapped at the state of immorality and selfishness, which is governing the world, particularly in the West. The message to Egypt\u2019s priests could actually be directed at the population of the European and North American cities:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The first temptation is to letting ourselves to be led, rather than to lead\u2026 The second temptation is complaining constantly\u2026 The third temptation is gossip and envy\u2026 The fourth temptation is comparing us with those better off\u2026 The fifth temptation is individualism, \u2018me, and after me the flood\u2019\u2026 the final temptation is \u2018keep walking without direction or destination\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pope Francis gave speeches, and met the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El Sisi. He appealed to Egypt to \u201cSave the world from famine of love\u201d. The <em>Egyptian Gazette<\/em>, an official English language newspaper, carried a headline with a photograph of Pope Francis and the President (and ex-general El Sisi), smiling at each other, as if this odd couple could truly become the entity capable of returning both love and passion to the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the Pope\u2019s speeches were good, I have a big problem with anyone meeting the murderer El Sisi,\u201d one of my friends wrote to me from exile in Paris, one of the \u2018revolutionary doctors\u2019, a man who used to be imprisoned and tortured here in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>And El Sisi he did meet, and they grinned at each other for the camera lenses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>There is one&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/05\/pope-and-i-in-cairo\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cairo, Pope Francis, once again, did what he usually does best: he snapped at the state of immorality and selfishness, which is governing the world, particularly in the West. The message to Egypt\u2019s priests could actually be directed at the population of the European and North American cities: The first temptation is to letting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}