{"id":243324,"date":"2019-06-26T19:14:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=243324"},"modified":"2019-06-26T19:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:14:51","slug":"the-church-sends-a-message-of-hope-to-the-youth-away-from-addictions-archbishop-ieronymos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-church-sends-a-message-of-hope-to-the-youth-away-from-addictions-archbishop-ieronymos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church sends a message of hope to the youth away from addictions &#8211; Archbishop Ieronymos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>On the occasion of the International Day Against Drug Abuse, the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece sends a message to young people.<\/h3>\n<p>Archbishop Ieronymos says young people that the addictions of our time, such as drugs, alcohol, gambling, as well as Internet addiction, etc. \u201chave a common cause, the beginning of a spiritual death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Archbishop of Athens today\u2019s families and societies are built without any values, love and hope, Romfea News reports.<\/p>\n<p>He points out to young people that relations now depend on need and personal interest, and fear and panic cannot protect us from the dangers of addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Inviting young people to the Church, he notes that we need to have hope and love and seek the values that faith in God gives us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur God is not just Crucified, He is Risen; He does not know only the pain of men but, above all, He knows how to give life and surplus life.<\/p>\n<p>So, our Church has been living for 2000 years now within this abundance of life and Grace, and, therefore, sends a message of hope to those who want to fight, away from addictions,\u201d Archbishop of Athens says, closing his message.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Romfea News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the International Day Against Drug Abuse, the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece sends a message to young people. Archbishop Ieronymos says young people that the addictions of our time, such as drugs, alcohol, gambling, as well as Internet addiction, etc. \u201chave a common cause, the beginning of a spiritual death.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":243193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}