{"id":2803,"date":"2009-12-25T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2009-12-25T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T12:36:34","slug":"pope-benedict-spoke-after-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pope-benedict-spoke-after-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict spoke after assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pope-assault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2804\" title=\"Pope Benedict spoke after assault\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pope-assault-280x191.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Benedict spoke after assault\" width=\"280\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pope-assault-280x191.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pope-assault.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong>Pope Benedict has delivered his traditional Christmas message at the Vatican, hours after a woman leapt at him and dragged him to the ground.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pope spoke in a firm voice in front of thousands of pilgrims, appearing undaunted by the earlier incident.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Church was a &#8220;source of unity&#8221; for many people across the world and called for those in conflict zones to show respect for one another.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican said the woman who jumped at the Pope had been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican officials said she appeared to be mentally unstable, and that she had attempted to get to the Pope at the same event last year.<\/p>\n<p>French Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, 87, who was standing a few metres away, fell and broke his hip during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The assault took place as the pontiff was about to celebrate Christmas Eve Mass at St Peter&#8217;s Basilica.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s David Willey, in Rome, says the Vatican is trying its best to play down the incident.<\/p>\n<p>But our correspondent says the Pope&#8217;s security is a very difficult issue as the pontiff has to interact with the congregation and many Catholics would be angry if he was only ever seen from behind a screen.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old pontiff made no mention of the incident during his Christmas message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict has delivered his traditional Christmas message at the Vatican, hours after a woman leapt at him and dragged him to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118],"tags":[3722,3735,3723,3717,3719,3283,3720,3724,3715],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","tag-cardinal-roger-etchegaray","tag-french-cardinal-roger-etchegaray","tag-pope","tag-pope-benedict-xvi","tag-pope-benedict-xvi-christmas","tag-pope-benedict-xvi-thoughts","tag-pope-christmas-mass","tag-pope-video","tag-woman-knocked-pope-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}