{"id":19495,"date":"2024-02-28T15:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/pope-francis-hospitalized-after-general-audience\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:02:36","slug":"pope-francis-hospitalized-after-general-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/pope-francis-hospitalized-after-general-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis hospitalized after general audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis was taken to hospital for an examination after holding his weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Catholic Church returned to the Vatican shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Vatican, the pope has been suffering from a \u201cmild flu\u201d for a few days, which led to the cancellation of several public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Before visiting the hospital, during the audience, the pope said: \u201cI still have a bit of a cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff plans to meet Germany\u2019s Chancellor, Olaf Scholz in a private audience for the first time on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The pope\u2019s health condition has been the subject of concern for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the pope also had issues with inflammation of the respiratory tract.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he was hospitalized twice.<\/p>\n<p>He is often in a wheelchair during public appearances due to a knee condition.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the pope, born in Argentina, has been in office since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He was the successor to German Pope Benedict XVI and will mark 11 years in office next month<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis hospitalized after general audience<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis was taken to hospital for an examination after holding his weekly general audience&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9731],"tags":[7010,180,9734],"class_list":["post-19495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pope-francis","tag-francis","tag-news","tag-pope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}