{"id":11942,"date":"2021-10-30T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T12:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=11942"},"modified":"2021-10-30T18:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T12:55:30","slug":"after-very-warm-meeting-pm-modi-invites-pope-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/10\/30\/after-very-warm-meeting-pm-modi-invites-pope-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"After \u2018Very Warm Meeting\u2019, PM Modi Invites Pope to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pope Francis today at the Vatican and invited the head of the Catholic Church to visit India.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter after his first-ever meeting with the Pope, Modi said: &#8220;Had a very warm meeting with Pope Francis. I had the opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues with him and also invited him to visit India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the meeting which was initially scheduled for only 20 minutes, continued for an hour during which they discussed a wide range of topics, including the fight against climate change and removing poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The last Papal visit to India took place in 1999 when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Pope John Paul II who had come to India then.<\/p>\n<p>Modi is on a three-day visit to Italy to attend the G20 Summit in Rome from where he will proceed to Glasgow for the UN COP26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Pope Francis today at the Vatican and invited the head of the Catholic Church to visit India. Taking to Twitter after his first-ever meeting with the Pope, Modi said: &#8220;Had a very warm meeting with Pope Francis. I had the opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues with him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11943,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11942\/revisions\/11943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}