{"id":164066,"date":"2020-10-11T02:56:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/11\/mexico-asks-pope-francis-for-apology-for-churchs-role-in-spanish-conquest\/"},"modified":"2020-10-11T02:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:56:37","slug":"mexico-asks-pope-francis-for-apology-for-churchs-role-in-spanish-conquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=164066","title":{"rendered":"Mexico asks Pope Francis for apology for church&#039;s role in Spanish conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s president says the Vatican should apologise for \u2018reprehensible atrocities\u2019 in colonisation 500 years agoMexico\u2019s president has written to Pope Francis to ask for an apology for the Catholic church\u2019s role in the oppression of indigenous people in the Spanish conquest 500 years ago.The request was made in a two-page letter that also asked the Vatican to temporarily return several ancient indigenous manuscripts held in its library, ahead of next year\u2019s 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/11\/mexico-asks-pope-francis-for-apology-for-churchs-role-in-spanish-conquest\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico asks Pope Francis for apology for church&#039;s role in Spanish conquest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s president says the Vatican should apologise for \u2018reprehensible atrocities\u2019 in colonisation 500 years agoMexico\u2019s president has written to Pope Francis to ask for an apology for the Catholic church\u2019s role in the oppression of indigenous people in the Spanish conquest 500 years ago.The request was made in a two-page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}