{"id":64999,"date":"2025-04-28T15:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64999"},"modified":"2025-04-28T15:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:26:37","slug":"vatican-sets-may-date-to-choose-new-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/28\/vatican-sets-may-date-to-choose-new-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Sets May Date to Choose New Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Vatican has announced that 135 cardinals will gather on May 7 to begin the sacred process of electing a new pope following the death of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>The conclave, held behind closed doors at the Sistine Chapel, will be preceded by a solemn mass at St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica.<\/p>\n<p>According to tradition, a two thirds majority will be required for a candidate to emerge as the next leader of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis passed away on Easter Monday at the age of 88 and was laid to rest last Saturday, marking the end of a decade-long papacy that touched millions around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The Vatican has announced that 135 cardinals will gather on May 7 to begin the sacred process of electing a new pope following the death of Pope Francis. The conclave, held behind closed doors at the Sistine Chapel, will be preceded by a solemn mass at St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica. According to tradition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1681],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religion","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65001,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64999\/revisions\/65001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}