{"id":65503,"date":"2025-05-09T08:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T08:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65503"},"modified":"2025-05-09T08:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T08:13:20","slug":"can-congratulates-catholic-church-hails-pope-leo-xivs-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/09\/can-congratulates-catholic-church-hails-pope-leo-xivs-election\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN Congratulates Catholic Church, hails Pope Leo XIV\u2019s election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Samson Adeyanju<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has extended warm congratulations to the Roman Catholic Church on the election of Pope Leo XIV, describing it as a moment of great joy and hope for the global Christian community.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Wednesday, CAN President Archbishop Daniel Okoh lauded the new Pontiff\u2019s emergence as a symbol of renewal and a promising chapter for the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe emergence of Pope Leo XIV signifies renewal and hope for the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CAN is confident that the new Pontiff will advance peace, justice and inclusiveness, continuing the legacy of his predecessors,\u201d Okoh stated.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed CAN\u2019s belief that Pope Leo XIV would bring spiritual leadership that fosters unity, righteousness and global harmony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCAN prays that Pope Leo XIV\u2019s pontificate be blessed with wisdom, good health and strength to lead God\u2019s people on the path of righteousness. May God guide and strengthen him in his ministry,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>CAN\u2019s message reflects widespread excitement across Christian denominations as the world welcomes a new era in Catholic leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samson Adeyanju &nbsp; The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has extended warm congratulations to the Roman Catholic Church on the election of Pope Leo XIV, describing it as a moment of great joy and hope for the global Christian community. In a statement issued on Wednesday, CAN President Archbishop Daniel Okoh lauded the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":65504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65503","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65505,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65503\/revisions\/65505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}