{"id":71245,"date":"2025-04-22T10:05:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T01:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/22\/asia-pacific-catholics-mourn-pope-francis"},"modified":"2025-04-22T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T01:05:01","slug":"he-left-an-indelible-impression-catholics-across-asia-pacific-mourn-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71245","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He left an indelible impression\u2019: Catholics across Asia-Pacific mourn the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Timor-Leste to PNG and the Philippines, millions of Catholics are marking the death of Pope Francis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/22\/pope-francis-funeral-next-pope-rome-vatican-latest-news\">Latest updates: Cardinals head to Rome to prepare for funeral<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The death of Pope Francis has left millions of people in south-east Asia and the Pacific in deep mourning, as they remember a Catholic leader known for his humility, interfaith commitment and dedication to their region.<\/p>\n<p>In tiny Timor-Leste, where more than 95% of people are Catholic, Francis was the first pope to visit since its independence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/22\/asia-pacific-catholics-mourn-pope-francis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Timor-Leste to PNG and the Philippines, millions of Catholics are marking the death of Pope FrancisLatest updates: Cardinals head to Rome to prepare for funeralThe death of Pope Francis has left millions of people in south-east Asia and the Pacifi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,368,156,55,754,371,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-indonesia","category-philippines","category-pope-francis","category-religion","category-timor-leste"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71257,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71245\/revisions\/71257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}