{"id":11404,"date":"2025-11-04T20:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/actualites\/nouvelles\/red-wednesday-let-us-pray-persecuted-christians-around-world\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:08:01","slug":"red-wednesday-let-us-pray-persecuted-christians-around-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/red-wednesday-let-us-pray-persecuted-christians-around-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wednesday: Let us pray for persecuted Christians around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mass presided over by Archbishop Christian L\u00e9pine<\/strong><br \/>\n &nbsp;<b>Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 5 p.m.<\/b><br \/>\n &nbsp;<b>Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, Montreal<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>Every year, millions of Christians around the world live their faith at the cost of great suffering. In solidarity with them,&nbsp;<b>the Catholic Church in Montreal<\/b>&nbsp;is joining the international initiative&nbsp;<b>Red Wednesday<\/b>, organized by&nbsp;<b>Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)<\/b>, to pray and raise awareness about the reality of religious persecution.<\/p>\n\n<p>This celebration, presided over by&nbsp;<b>Archbishop Christian L\u00e9pine of Montreal<\/b>, will be a moment of prayer and fraternal communion in memory of all those who suffer for their faith. This year,&nbsp;<b>special emphasis will be placed on the reality of displaced persons and refugees<\/b>, who are often forced to flee because of their religion.<\/p>\n\n<p>Red Wednesday aims to remind us of the importance of religious freedom, a fundamental human right enshrined in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It invites everyone to take a concrete gesture of solidarity: wear red, the color of martyrdom, as a sign of unity with persecuted Christians.<\/p>\n\n<p><b>Join us, wear red, and pray with us!<\/b><\/p>\n\n<p>Together, let us show that our brothers and sisters in faith are not forgotten.<\/p>\n\n<p>To learn more about Red Wednesday and the resources available:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acn-canada.org\/rw\/fr\">acn-canada.org\/rw\/en<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass presided over by Archbishop Christian L\u00e9pine &nbsp;Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 5 p.m. &nbsp;Mary Queen of the World Cathedral, Montreal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}