{"id":2679,"date":"2023-06-06T13:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2023-06-30T13:49:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T09:49:44","slug":"holy-father-francis-sent-letter-of-congratulation-to-president-ilham-aliyev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/archives\/2679","title":{"rendered":"HOLY FATHER FRANCIS SENT LETTER OF CONGRATULATION TO PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2592 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/0x0-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/0x0-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/0x0-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/0x0.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan<\/p>\n<p>Your Excellency!<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the National Day of Azerbaijan &#8211; the Independence Day, I extend to you my wishes of well-being and prosperity for your country, and my sincere congratulations on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of your father, His Excellency Heydar Aliyev.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts of genius Heydar Aliyev towards Azerbaijan\u2019s development and establishment of diplomatic relations with the Holy See will be forever remembered with a sense of gratitude. May the Almighty God grant Azerbaijan and its people progress, prosperity, good health, and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Esteemed President, May God grant you every success in your high state activity, and all your fellow citizens abundance.<\/p>\n<p>With deep respect,<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His Excellency Mr. Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Your Excellency! On the occasion of the National Day of Azerbaijan &#8211; the Independence Day, I extend to you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parish-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/0x0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}