{"id":1777409,"date":"2022-12-16T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777409"},"modified":"2022-12-16T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:21:47","slug":"pope-francis-spend-less-on-christmas-and-send-the-excess-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pope-francis-spend-less-on-christmas-and-send-the-excess-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Spend Less on Christmas and Send the Excess to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpope-francis-spend-less-on-christmas-and-send-the-excess-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777409&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Pope Francis is urging Christians to spend less on Christmas this year and to send the savings to the people of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much suffering in Ukraine, so much, so much!\u201d the pontiff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/it\/audiences\/2022\/documents\/20221214-udienza-generale.html\">told<\/a> the crowds gathered in the Vatican for his weekly General Audience Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cI would like to draw some attention to the coming Christmas, even the parties,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to celebrate Christmas, to have parties\u2026 but let\u2019s lower the level of Christmas spending a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The pope went on to suggest that the money saved on the more commercial side to Christmas could be redirected to the suffering people of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22832728\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/AP22341334626856.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22832728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP22341334626856-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pope Francis looks at a nativity scene during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. (AP Photo\/Andrew Medichini)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s have a humbler Christmas, with more humble gifts,\u201d he proposed. \u201cWe send what we save to the Ukrainian people, who are in need, who suffer so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey are hungry, they feel the cold and many die because there are no doctors or nurses at hand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us not forget: a Christmas, yes; at peace with the Lord, yes, but with Ukrainians in our hearts. And let\u2019s make that concrete gesture for them,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Pope Francis is urging Christians to spend less on Christmas this year and to send the savings to the people of Ukraine. \u201cThere is so much suffering in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1777412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6922,9593,9590,9592,3819,9591,6319,6991],"class_list":["post-1777409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-christmas","tag-excess","tag-francis","tag-pope","tag-report","tag-send","tag-spend","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1777412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}