{"id":16488,"date":"2022-02-19T19:26:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis"},"modified":"2022-02-19T19:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:55:23","slug":"president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis","title":{"rendered":"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>President Hichilema writes\u2026 This morning we held a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. We discussed matters of mutual interest with His Holiness and expressed our deep gratitude to the Catholic Church for its unwavering commitment to the development of Zambia and it\u2019s citizens in all areas of human endeavours, for almost 130 years it\u2019s been operating in Zambia.<\/p>\n

Of particular interest to Zambians is that Pope Francis comes from the Jesuit order, a branch of the Catholic clerics that has had a profound influence on Zambia\u2019s education system for over a century.<\/p>\n

We therefore reiterated our resolve to working with the Church back home in fostering development and improving our people\u2019s livelihoods. We also stressed our view that we will continue embracing all religious faiths in Zambia.<\/p>\n

The Church has played a pivotal role in areas of education, health and the promotion of democracy and good governance in Zambia. We will always look up to the Church for guidance in dealing with national matters. Our meeting was fruitful and we are greatly humbled to have been invited at the Vatican.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Zambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. President Hichilema writes\u2026 This morning we held a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. We discussed matters of mutual interest with His Holiness and expressed our deep gratitude to the Catholic Church for its unwavering commitment to the development of Zambia and it\u2019s citizens in all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-16488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nPresident Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Hichilema writes\u2026 This morning we held a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. We ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Hichilema writes\u2026 This morning we held a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. We ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-19T19:26:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-19T19:55:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"886\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"591\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-19T19:26:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-19T19:55:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis\",\"name\":\"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis - Zambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-19T19:26:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-19T19:55:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"President Hichilema writes\u2026 This morning we held a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. We ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg\",\"width\":886,\"height\":591,\"caption\":\"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\",\"name\":\"Zambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis - Zambia","description":"President Hichilema writes\u2026 This morning we held a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. We ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis","og_description":"President Hichilema writes\u2026 This morning we held a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. We ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis","og_site_name":"Zambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-02-19T19:26:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-02-19T19:55:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":886,"height":591,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis","datePublished":"2022-02-19T19:26:20+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-19T19:55:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis"},"wordCount":208,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zambia","Zambia"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis","name":"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis - Zambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg","datePublished":"2022-02-19T19:26:20+00:00","dateModified":"2022-02-19T19:55:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"President Hichilema writes\u2026 This morning we held a meeting with the Holy Father, Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome. We ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/02\/img-62114b0b3812a.jpg","width":886,"height":591,"caption":"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/president-hakainde-hichilema-meets-pope-francis#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"President Hakainde Hichilema meets Pope Francis"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/","name":"Zambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}