{"id":305806,"date":"2018-01-17T01:10:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/the-enthusiasm-of-the-young-people-of-chile\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:36:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:36:12","slug":"the-enthusiasm-of-the-young-people-of-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/the-enthusiasm-of-the-young-people-of-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"The enthusiasm of the young people of Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-16-PHOTO-00000443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-160137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-16-PHOTO-00000443.jpg\" alt=\"2018-01-16-PHOTO-00000443\" width=\"368\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>It is the second day of Pope Francis in \u201ctheir\u201d land, after he landed in the evening of 15 January at the Airport of Santiago<\/strong>, to start a journey that in two weeks will touch base with two South American countries. \u201cI want to look into your eyes, face to face,\u201d he had said before setting out on his journey. About 15,000 volunteers are at work, offering their talents, time and commitment, to provide a fundamental service in the various events that will be held during the first lap in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/focolare-worldwide\/america-sud\/cile\/\">Chile<\/a>.  <strong>&#8220;This experience breaks the limits of a task we are entrusted with<\/strong>: in fact, it is the sincere expression of a commitment which will mark our lives forever,\u201d some of them said. \u201cIn contrast with the apathy expressed by some of the media, the youths of Chile offer a note of enthusiasm and emotion for the Pope\u2019s arrival,\u201d well expressed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QPFhy0H_9uk&amp;sns=em\">song composed by Claudio Gonz\u00e1lez Carrasco<\/a>, of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/chi-siamo\/\"> Focolare<\/a> community in Temuco (southern Chile).  <strong>Welcomed by the outgoing President, Michelle Bachelet<\/strong>, the Pope then proceeded towards the Apostolic Nunciature, where he will stay during this first lap. Among the many fundamental moments of the journey in Chile, will be the meeting with Chilean mapuches populations, who are battling to safeguard their own identity, and the Mass of 17 January for the indigenous populations of the region.  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many young people of the Focolare Movement are among the 15,000 volunteers who have been working for some time now in the organisation of Pope Francis\u2019s trip to Chile and Peru. \u201cAn unforgettable experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}