{"id":270548,"date":"2020-02-04T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=270548"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:46:10","slug":"patriarch-ilia-of-georgia-on-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/patriarch-ilia-of-georgia-on-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Ilia of Georgia on the coronavirus: All of this is for strengthening of faith and prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p3\" data-field=\" paragraph\"><strong>The coronavirus is another test, designed to strengthen our faith, His Holiness Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II of Georgia told his flock during his Sunday homily at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p4\" data-field=\" paragraph\">\u201cYou know that a new virus has appeared. Many people are scared because of the virus. Some have called it a \u2018deadly virus,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p5\" data-field=\" paragraph\">But, \u201cAll of this is to strengthen our faith and increase our prayers,\u201d the revered Georgian primate emphasized, reports\u00a0Georgia Online, quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/orthochristian.com\/127712.html\">Orthochristian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p8\" data-field=\" paragraph\">There are currently more than 130 cases of coronavirus infection in 23 countries around the world. According to the authorities of China, there are more than 20,000 cases of the disease, and 427 people have died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"os\" data-enum=\"p9\" data-field=\" paragraph\">No cases have yet been recorded in Georgia, and flights from China have been temporarily suspended as a preventative measure.<\/p>\n<p data-enum=\"p9\" data-field=\" paragraph\">Photo courtesy: 1tv.ge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus is another test, designed to strengthen our faith, His Holiness Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II of Georgia told his flock during his Sunday homily at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi. \u201cYou know that a new virus has appeared. Many people are scared because of the virus. Some have called it a \u2018deadly virus,\u2019\u201d he said.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":270544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22491,3162,1988,3925,15620],"class_list":["post-270548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-coronavirus-en","tag-faith","tag-patriarch-ilia","tag-prayers","tag-stiri-ortodoxe-en"],"better_featured_image":{"id":270544,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1000,"height":593,"file":"2020\/02\/335130.b.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"335130.b-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/335130.b-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"335130.b-890x528.jpg","width":890,"height":528,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/335130.b-890x528.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":270548,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/335130.b.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270548\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=270548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270548\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270544\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=270548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=270548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=270548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}