{"id":196673,"date":"2025-04-24T06:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberians-reflect-on-pope-francis-legacy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T06:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:20:41","slug":"liberians-reflect-on-pope-francis-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberians-reflect-on-pope-francis-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberians Reflect On Pope Francis&#8217; Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">On Monday, April 21, the world observed a moment of profound silence as it reflected on the loss of His Holiness Pope Francis, a revered figure known for his moral leadership, dedication to peace, and unwavering advocacy for marginalized communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">While the globe descended into mourning mood, Liberia was not left out as Liberians mourn the loss of the Pope, head of the global Catholic Church who passed away in the early hours of Easter Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">President Joseph Nyuma Boakai expressed deep sorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504230593.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, April 21, the world observed a moment of profound silence as it reflected on the loss of His Holiness Pope Francis, a revered figure known for his moral leadership, dedication to peace, and unwavering advocacy for marginalized communities. While the globe descended into mourning mood, Liberia was not left out as Liberians mourn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,19220,11879,1107,6565,257,6579,10652,254],"class_list":["post-196673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-francis","tag-legacy","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberians","tag-news","tag-pope","tag-reflect","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196673","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}