{"id":278974,"date":"2020-05-08T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=278974"},"modified":"2020-05-08T13:33:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T10:33:56","slug":"world-red-cross-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/world-red-cross-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Red Cross Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Red Cross day is observed on May 8 to celebrate the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The day is observed on May 8 on the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this day, people pay tributes to the Red Cross volunteers for their contribution in helping those in need.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-mad\">\n<div id=\"NW18_ENG_Desktop\/NW18_ENG_World\/NW18_ENG_World_AS\/NW18_ENG_WRLD_AS_ROS_BTF_728\" data-google-query-id=\"CMq6qJb9o-kCFZfjuwgdG1sKSA\">\n<p>The main aim of the Red Cross Society is basically to inspire, initiate and encourage all kinds of humanitarian activities under all times and circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Programmes conducted by the Red Cross Society can be broadly categorised into four parts including the promotion of humanitarian principles and values; disaster response; disaster preparedness; and health and care.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Cross Society is based on 7 principles namely, humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary, unity and universality.<\/p>\n<p>International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on microblogging site Twitter said, \u201cIt&#8217;s already World Red Cross Red Crescent Day in some countries around the (globe)!! Today and every day let\u2019s #KeepClapping for all volunteers and staff worldwide responding to COVID-19\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&#8217;s already World Red Cross Red Crescent Day in some countries around the ?!! Today and every day let&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KeepClapping?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeepClapping<\/a> ? for all volunteers and staff worldwide responding to COVID-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M8G3qD6MS4\">pic.twitter.com\/M8G3qD6MS4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IFRC (@ifrc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ifrc\/status\/1258351118641360896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nPhoto courtesy of Crucea Ro\u0219ie Rom\u00e2n\u0103<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Red Cross day is observed on May 8 to celebrate the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The day is observed on May 8 on the birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross. On this day, people pay tributes to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":278972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[22491,22763,10386,10705,23275],"class_list":["post-278974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations","tag-coronavirus-en","tag-covid-19-en","tag-orthodox-news","tag-religious-news","tag-world-red-cross-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278974","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}