{"id":29956,"date":"2025-09-27T14:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=29956"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:40:15","slug":"the-catholic-church-and-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/the-catholic-church-and-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Church and Roma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Roma delegation from the Czech Republic led by Karel Karika, Chairman of the Czechoslovak Roma Union, today attended a general audience with Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter&#8217;s Square. Representatives of the Roma community delivered an exceptional message to the Holy Father: They requested the symbolic lifting of the excommunication of Roma from the Catholic Church, which was declared in 1427 and not abrogated to this day!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pope Leo XIV also signed a Romanes translation of the Bible during a personal meeting with a Roma delegation from the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VIDEO: Pape\u017e p\u0159ijal romskou delegaci z \u010ceska. \u017d\u00e1dali o zru\u0161en\u00ed exkomunikace Rom\u016f z c\u00edrkve, kter\u00e1 trv\u00e1 od 15. Stolet\u00ed. In: Romea. 24.09.2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/romea.cz\/cz\/domaci\/video-papez-prijal-romskou-delegaci-z-ceska-zadali-o-zruseni-exkomunikace-romu-z-cirkve-ktera-trva-od-15-stoleti#google_vignette\">https:\/\/romea.cz\/cz\/domaci\/video-papez-prijal-romskou-delegaci-z-ceska-zadali-o-zruseni-exkomunikace-romu-z-cirkve-ktera-trva-od-15-stoleti#google_vignette<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lucie Fukov\u00e1na setk\u00e1n\u00ed s pape\u017eem Lvem XIV\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a6Rv8JZWvm0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Roma delegation from the Czech Republic led by Karel Karika, Chairman of the Czechoslovak Roma Union, today attended a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/papez-karika-fukova.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602,595,14,15],"tags":[92,351],"class_list":["post-29956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-czech","category-italy","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","tag-discrimination","tag-religion"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/papez-karika-fukova.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29959,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29956\/revisions\/29959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}