{"id":221335,"date":"2025-12-26T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=221335"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T09:34:08","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-revives-tradition-of-multilingual-christmas-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/221335\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV revives tradition of multilingual Christmas greetings"},"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 revived a tradition by offering greetings in multiple languages during his first Christmas Day message, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/video\/2025\/12\/25\/pope-leo-xiv-revives-tradition-with-multilingual-christmas-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, he revived the tradition of sending New Year&rsquo;s greetings in several languages, which his predecessor, Pope Francis, did not follow.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, the leader of the Catholic world focused on the importance of achieving peace through dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>He referred to the conflict in Ukraine, calling on Russia and Ukraine to find the &ldquo;courage&rdquo; to engage in direct negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope also condemned unrest and conflicts in other parts of the world, including Thailand and Cambodia. He urged the restoration of the &ldquo;ancient friendship&rdquo; among Southeast Asian countries and emphasized working toward reconciliation and peace.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Christmas story should remind Christians of their duty to help the poor and strangers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV revived a tradition by offering greetings in multiple languages during his first Christmas Day message, Euronews writes. In doing so, he revived the tradition of sending New Year&rsquo;s greetings in several languages, which his predecessor, Pope Francis, did not follow. In his address, the leader of the Catholic world focused on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":221308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221335","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=221335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221336,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221335\/revisions\/221336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}