{"id":1272163,"date":"2022-12-31T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/macron-von-der-leyen-offer-condolences-after-death-of-benedict-xvi\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T15:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:44:39","slug":"macron-von-der-leyen-offer-condolences-after-death-of-benedict-xvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/31\/macron-von-der-leyen-offer-condolences-after-death-of-benedict-xvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron, von der Leyen offer condolences after death of Benedict XVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Paris, Dec 31, (dpa\/GNA) \u2013 French President, Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, offered their condolences, following the death of former pope Benedict XVI on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Macron on Twitter remembered Benedict as a champion for a \u201cmore fraternal world\u201d, and said his thoughts were \u201cwith Catholics in France and throughout the world\u201d, who were in mourning.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen also took to Twitter to offer her sympathies. \u201cHe had set a strong signal through his resignation. He saw himself first as a servant for God and his Church,\u201d she wrote.<br \/>GNA<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"0fb45f61f0f808260ac424e3-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris, Dec 31, (dpa\/GNA) \u2013 French President, Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, offered their condolences, following the death of former pope Benedict XVI on Saturday. Macron on Twitter remembered Benedict as a champion for a \u201cmore fraternal world\u201d, and said his thoughts were \u201cwith Catholics in France and throughout the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}