{"id":183889,"date":"2025-09-15T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=183889"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:17:58","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-celebrates-his-70th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/183889\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV celebrates his 70th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Pope Leo XIV celebrated his 70th birthday from St. Peter&rsquo;s Square at the Vatican on Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/09\/14\/pope-leo-xiv-marvels-at-huge-learning-curve-as-he-celebrates-70th-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff blessed the faithful gathered for the Angelus prayer and thanked them for their good wishes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My dears, it seems you know today I have turned 70,&rdquo; Leo said to cheers. &ldquo;I thank the Lord, my parents and all those who remembered me in their prayers,&rdquo; the pontiff said at the end of the prayer, as applause erupted through the square, where hundreds of people held &ldquo;happy birthday&rdquo; banners, in English, Italian and Spanish, balloons and congratulatory signs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV celebrated his 70th birthday from St. Peter&rsquo;s Square at the Vatican on Sunday, Euronews writes. The pontiff blessed the faithful gathered for the Angelus prayer and thanked them for their good wishes. &ldquo;My dears, it seems you know today I have turned 70,&rdquo; Leo said to cheers. &ldquo;I thank the Lord, my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":183881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183890,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183889\/revisions\/183890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}