{"id":12663,"date":"2026-05-04T22:13:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/12663\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:13:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:13:31","slug":"burkina-faso-niger-catholic-bishops-call-for-prayers-at-start-of-ad-limina-visit-to-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/12663\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso-Niger Catholic Bishops Call for Prayers at Start of Ad Limina Visit to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciafrica.org\/author\/14\/jude-atemanke\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jude Atemanke\" class=\"author-image m-0 mr-4\" height=\"48\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jude-atemanke_1647470026.jpg\" width=\"48\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-info\">Vatican, 04 May, 2026 \/  5:11 pm (ACI Africa).<\/p>\n<p>Members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcatholic.org\/dioceses\/conference\/010.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of Burkina Faso and Niger<\/a> (CEBN) have called on the people of God to accompany them in prayer as they undertake their May 2-11 Ad Limina visit to Rome.<\/p>\n<p>In a message addressed to the \u201cChurch Family of God\u201d in both countries, CEBN members announced that they would be temporarily absent from their respective Dioceses during the visit, in accordance with the norms of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery Episcopal Conference is ordinarily required\u2026 to make a pilgrimage to the tombs of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, not only to manifest their hierarchical communion with the Successor of Peter, but also to strengthen their shared responsibility as successors of the Apostles,\u201d the Catholic Bishops said.<\/p>\n<p>They explained that the Ad Limina visit offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with the Pope and officials of the Roman Curia, while also presenting the pastoral, spiritual, and social realities of their dioceses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis period allows the Bishops to present together to the Pope the spiritual and social life of the dioceses entrusted to their pastoral care,\u201d CEBN members said, noting that the visit also includes moments of prayer and spiritual renewal at the tombs of Saints Peter and Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vatican, 04 May, 2026 \/ 5:11 pm (ACI Africa). Members of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of Burkina Faso&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2756,3446,3445,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-12663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rome","8":"tag-article","9":"tag-cna","10":"tag-keyword","11":"tag-rome"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}