{"id":37197,"date":"2025-04-26T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/04\/26\/will-the-next-pope-be-from-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T00:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:01:51","slug":"will-the-next-pope-be-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/04\/26\/will-the-next-pope-be-from-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the next Pope be from Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On the eve of the Pope&rsquo;s funeral, the question of who will replace the Pope is already on everyone&rsquo;s lips. Can it be an African? Of the 135 cardinal electors, 18 are from Africa. That&rsquo;s a growing significance as the continent accounts for around 20% of the world&rsquo;s Catholic population.\u00a0Some names have been mentioned, such as Peter Turkson from Ghana, a progressive voice, or the conservatives Robert Sarah from Guinea and Fridolin Ambongo Besungu from DR Congo.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the Pope&rsquo;s funeral, the question of who will replace the Pope is already on everyone&rsquo;s lips. Can it be an African? Of the 135 cardinal electors, 18 are from Africa. That&rsquo;s a growing significance as the continent accounts for around 20% of the world&rsquo;s Catholic population.\u00a0Some names have been mentioned, such &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-37197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}