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Luanda \u2014 The Vice-President of Angola, Esperan\u00e7a da Costa, and the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Wednesday in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, discussed issues related to the role, history and performance of the Catholic Church in Angola and the desire for Pope Francis to visit the African nation.<\/p>\n
Without giving any dates, Cardinal Pietro Parolin said that the request from the Angolan government and population would be passed on to Pope Francis.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Luanda \u2014 The Vice-President of Angola, Esperan\u00e7a da Costa, and the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Wednesday in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, discussed issues related to the role, history and performance of the Catholic Church in Angola and the desire for Pope Francis to visit the African nation. Without giving any dates, Cardinal Pietro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,6271,257,5932,254,6017,29083,10056],"class_list":["post-174498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-meets","tag-news","tag-secretary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-vatican","tag-vicepresident"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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