{"id":78430,"date":"2025-05-08T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=78430"},"modified":"2025-05-08T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:55:00","slug":"president-bajram-begaj-congratulates-catholic-faithful-on-election-of-new-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/president-bajram-begaj-congratulates-catholic-faithful-on-election-of-new-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"President Bajram Begaj Congratulates Catholic Faithful on Election of New Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"213\">President of the Republic Bajram Begaj extended his congratulations today to Catholic believers on the election of the new Pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"393\">\u201cCongratulations to Albanian Catholics and Catholics around the world on the election of the new Pope!\u201d wrote President Begaj on his official accounts on platform X and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"395\" data-end=\"596\">\u201cI am confident,\u201d the President stated, \u201cthat His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV, will contribute with all his strength and authority to the noble cause of strengthening peaceful coexistence among all faiths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"759\">On behalf of the Albanian people, President Begaj wished that Pope Leo XIV be under God&#8217;s protection in fulfilling his sacred mission at the helm of the Vatican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Republic Bajram Begaj extended his congratulations today to Catholic believers on the election of the new Pope. \u201cCongratulations to Albanian Catholics and Catholics around the world on the election of the new Pope!\u201d wrote President Begaj on his official accounts on platform X and Facebook. \u201cI am confident,\u201d the President stated, \u201cthat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":78431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,1803],"tags":[150,243,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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