{"id":556501,"date":"2026-01-20T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=556501"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:07:42","slug":"metropolitan-ioan-banat-end-violence-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/metropolitan-ioan-banat-end-violence-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Banat Metropolitan calls for prayer for families, end to violence against women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat on Sunday urged prayer for families and called for an end to violence against women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would raise a prayer to God to bless our country, Banat and the whole world,\u201d the metropolitan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo you, my brothers, I have one request: let us pray for families, because in the past year, every week a mother, a wife, a daughter was killed. Brothers\u2014men\u2014stop! Do not kill our mothers, wives and daughters anymore!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my prayer to you. May God bless you all!\u201d he concluded, his voice choked with emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Ioan made the appeal at the <a href=\"https:\/\/gerhardus.ro\/unitatea-este-un-dar-al-lui-dumnezeu-deschiderea-octavei-de-rugaciune-pentru-unitatea-crestinilor-la-timisoara\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening meeting<\/a> of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, held at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Timi\u0219oara.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FepiscopiaTM%2Fvideos%2F849551041403265%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=7890\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Roman-Catholic Diocese of Timi\u0219oara<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/basilicanews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-556506\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner-890x149.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner-890x149.jpeg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner-360x60.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner-768x128.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat on Sunday urged prayer for families and called for an end to violence against women. \u201cI would raise a prayer to God to bless our country, Banat and the whole world,\u201d the metropolitan said. \u201cTo you, my brothers, I have one request: let us pray for families, because in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":556386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22922],"tags":[23528,36304,34383,23527,4939,36429,33544,34189],"class_list":["post-556501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-domestic-violence","tag-family-pastoral-care","tag-gender-based-violence","tag-metropolis-of-banat","tag-metropolitan-ioan","tag-respect-for-women","tag-solemn-year-2026","tag-week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556501","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}