{"id":1347,"date":"2013-09-25T20:29:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2013-09-25T20:29:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T20:29:46","slug":"wrwfs-reggie-littlejohn-meets-pope-francis-at-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wrwfs-reggie-littlejohn-meets-pope-francis-at-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"WRWF&#8217;s Reggie Littlejohn Meets Pope Francis at the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1349\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Pope-Francis-1-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1349\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1349\" title=\"Reggie and Pope Francis 1 copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Pope-Francis-1-copy-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Pope-Francis-1-copy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Pope-Francis-1-copy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reggie Littlejohn meets Pope Francis in the Vatican on September 20, 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, while in Rome, Reggie Littlejohn had the opportunity to meet Pope Francis during an audience arranged by MaterCare.\u00a0 Littlejohn stated, &#8220;I have greatly admired Pope Francis but never thought I would have the opportunity to meet him face to face.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1354\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Pope-Francis-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1354\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1354\" title=\"Reggie and Pope Francis 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Pope-Francis-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Pope-Francis-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Pope-Francis-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WRWF&#39;s Reggie Littlejohn Meets Pope Francis <\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was an overwhelming experience to shake his hand and to tell him of our work fighting forced abortion and saving baby girls from sex-selective abortion.\u00a0 He has a warm, humble and profound presence.&#8221;\u00a0 Littlejohn was in Rome to address the tenth anniversary international conference of MaterCare International, a Vatican-related non-profit that provides maternal healthcare to impoverished African women.<\/p>\n<p>Littlejohn was also the featured speaker at the Rome premiere of the &#8220;It&#8217;s a Girl&#8221; film about gendercide and forced abortion in India and China.\u00a0 She had previously spoken &#8212; together with filmmakers Evan Grae Davis and Andrew Brown &#8212; at the premieres of the film at the European and British Parliaments, as well as at the United States Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Click here for more information on MaterCare International.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matercare.org\">http:\/\/www.matercare.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matercare.org\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matercare.org\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matercare.org\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matercare.org\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_1367\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matercare.org\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matercare.org\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Rosanna-Del-Buono-Trevi-Fountain-9-20-131.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1367\" title=\"Reggie and Rosanna Del Buono - Trevi Fountain 9 20 13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Rosanna-Del-Buono-Trevi-Fountain-9-20-131-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Rosanna-Del-Buono-Trevi-Fountain-9-20-131-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reggie-and-Rosanna-Del-Buono-Trevi-Fountain-9-20-131-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Reggie in front of the Trevi Fountain with Rosanna del Buono, who organized the Rome premiere of &#8220;It&#8217;s a Girl.&#8221;<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click here for more information on the &#8220;It&#8217;s a Girl&#8221; film.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsagirlmovie.com\">http:\/\/www.itsagirlmovie.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, while in Rome, Reggie Littlejohn had the opportunity to meet Pope Francis during an audience arranged by MaterCare.\u00a0 Littlejohn stated, &#8220;I have greatly admired Pope Francis but never thought I would have the opportunity to meet him face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wrwfs-reggie-littlejohn-meets-pope-francis-at-the-vatican\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[120,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evan-grae-davis","category-its-a-girl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}