{"id":54066,"date":"2018-01-14T13:39:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=54066"},"modified":"2018-01-15T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T12:03:10","slug":"%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%af%d9%81-%d9%83%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b3-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%8a%d9%84%d9%8a-%d9%82%d8%a8%d9%84-%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%aa%d9%81%d8%ac%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%aa%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%87%d8%af%d9%81-%d9%83%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a6%d8%b3-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%aa%d8%b4%d9%8a%d9%84%d9%8a-%d9%82%d8%a8%d9%84-%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Chile churches attacked before Pope Francis visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">Several churches in Chile have been attacked or vandalised ahead of a visit by Pope Francis next week.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">Three churches in the capital Santiago were damaged by firebombs. Some flyers left behind warned that the next one was for the Pope.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">But at another church south of the capital, a pamphlet used a phrase that refers to activism in the indigenous Mapuche territory.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">President Michelle Bachelet described the incidents as &#8220;very strange&#8221;.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">&#8220;In a democracy, people can express themselves as long as they do it in a peaceful way,&#8221; she told a radio station on Friday, adding that the attacks could not yet be tied to a particular group.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">No one has been arrested for the attacks, which caused no injuries. The Vatican is yet to comment.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">Pope Francis has made compassion and support for migrants and the needy a major theme of his papacy. But notes left at one of the attacked churches reportedly complained that money spent on his visit could be better used on the poor.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">The Pope will hold mass on Tuesday in a Santiago park and hundreds of thousands of people are expected to turn out.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">The pontiff will also meet Mapuche leaders on his visit to Chile.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">They say vast privately owned estates and huge timber plantations have left their lands in the extreme south of Chile environmentally depleted and their people mired in poverty, says BBC World Service Americas Editor Candace Piette.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"andale mono\", times;\">The pontiff, the first Latin American Pope, will travel to Peru after Chile.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several churches in Chile have been attacked or vandalised ahead of a visit by Pope Francis next week. Three churches in the capital Santiago were damaged by firebombs. Some flyers left behind warned that the next one was for the Pope. 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