{"id":3869,"date":"2015-12-02T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/staff-blog\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2015-12-02T19:07:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:07:49","slug":"pope-francis-is-peta-asias-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/pope-francis-is-peta-asias-person-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis is PETA Asia\u2019s Person of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3870\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/staff-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/12\/Pope-Francis-in-the-Philippines.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis in the Philippines\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/12\/Pope-Francis-in-the-Philippines.jpg 850w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/12\/Pope-Francis-in-the-Philippines-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">PETA or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has chosen His Holiness Pope Francis as PETA Asia\u2019s Person of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The first pope to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of all animals, Pope Francis has been known as a church leader who cares for animal welfare. He urged the world\u2019s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics and\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0citizens of the world to reject domination over God\u2019s creation, treat animals with kindness, and respect the environment. In his 2015 treatise,\u00a0<em>Laudato Si\u2019, <\/em>the charismatic pope stressed the importance of treating animals with kindness, writing, \u201cEvery act of cruelty towards any creature is \u2018contrary to human dignity&#8217;\u201d and \u201cWe are not God. \u2026 [W]e must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God\u2019s image and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The pope is also known for his environmental stewardship advocacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Other past Person of the Year awardees include actor Maggie Q, model Isabel Roces-Trebol, and Taiwanese singer Show Luo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Source: petaasia.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has chosen His Holiness Pope Francis as PETA Asia\u2019s Person of the Year. The first pope to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of all animals, Pope Francis has been known as a church leader who cares for animal welfare. He urged the world\u2019s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics and\u00a0all\u00a0citizens of the world to reject domination over God\u2019s creation, treat animals with kindness, and respect the environment. In his 2015 treatise,\u00a0Laudato Si\u2019, the charismatic pope stressed the importance of treating animals with kindness, writing, \u201cEvery act of cruelty towards any creature is \u2018contrary to human dignity&#8217;\u201d and \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/12\/Pope-Francis-in-the-Philippines.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}