{"id":35079,"date":"2022-12-16T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/pope-to-return-three-parthenon-fragments-to-athens\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T22:02:26","slug":"pope-to-return-three-parthenon-fragments-to-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/pope-to-return-three-parthenon-fragments-to-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope to return three Parthenon fragments to Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10\/files\/2022\/12\/000_33424Y7-620x413.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VATICAN CITY &#8212; Pope Francis is to return to Greece three fragments of Athens&#8217; Parthenon temple, in what the Vatican referred to as Friday a gesture of friendship.<\/p>\n<p>The fragments from the Parthenon on the Acropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have been held for hundreds of years within the papal assortment and Vatican Museums.<\/p>\n<p>Francis has determined &#8220;to donate&#8221; them to the Orthodox Archbishop of Athens, &#8220;as a concrete signal&#8221; of his need to nurture interreligious relations, the Vatican mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>No date was given for the return of the fragments.<\/p>\n<p>Greece&#8217;s cultural ministry welcomed the restitution, saying in an announcement that it appreciated the pope&#8217;s &#8220;religious and fraternal gesture towa&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Keep on studying: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1706144\/pope-to-return-three-parthenon-fragments-to-athens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope to return three Parthenon fragments to Athens<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &nbsp; VATICAN CITY &#8212; Pope Francis is to return to Greece three fragments of Athens&#8217; Parthenon temple, in what the Vatican referred to as Friday a gesture of friendship. The fragments from the Parthenon on the Acropolis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have been held for hundreds of years within the papal assortment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}