{"id":6208,"date":"2019-10-29T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"pope-demands-predators-stop-plundering-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/29\/pope-demands-predators-stop-plundering-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Demands &#8216;Predators&#8217; Stop Plundering The Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pope Francis said\nSunday it was time for &#8220;predators&#8221; to stop plundering the Earth for\nfinancial gain, holding up the &#8220;scarred face of the Amazon&#8221; as a\nwarning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poor are\n&#8220;threatened by predatory models of development&#8221;, the pope said at a\nMass at the end of a three-week Vatican assembly, or synod, on the\nPan-Amazonian region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The mistakes of\nthe past were not enough to stop the plundering of other persons and the\ninflicting of wounds on our brothers and sisters and on our sister earth: we\nhave seen it in the scarred face of the Amazon region,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have often\nheard the phrase &#8216;later is too late&#8217;: that cannot remain a slogan,&#8221;\nFrancis said during the Angelus prayer after the Mass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 184 Catholic bishops had gathered at the Vatican with representatives of indigenous peoples, experts and nuns, to discuss a multitude of regional concerns, from the destruction of the rainforest and the global climate emergency to land-grabbing and the exploitation of indigenous peoples. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/Pope-demands-predators-stop-plundering-the-Earth\/1190-5327492-t9d6nlz\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Pope Francis said Sunday it was time for &#8220;predators&#8221; to stop plundering the Earth for financial gain, holding up the &#8220;scarred face of the Amazon&#8221; as a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}