{"id":92024,"date":"2026-01-09T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=92024"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:13:07","slug":"pope-leo-warns-of-shrinking-freedom-of-expression-in-western-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/pope-leo-warns-of-shrinking-freedom-of-expression-in-western-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo warns of \u2018shrinking\u2019 freedom of expression in Western countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo warned on Friday that \u200bfreedom of expression is \u201crapidly shrinking\u201d in Western countries, and urged the right to conscientious objection for people who \u200crefuse military \u200cservice \u200cor \u2060for \u200bdoctors who \u200crefuse to perform abortions or euthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is painful to see how, especially in the West, \u2060the space for genuine \u200cfreedom of expression \u200dis \u200drapidly shrinking,\u201d the pope \u200dsaid in an address to diplomats accredited to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA \u200bnew Orwellian-style language is developing which, \u2060in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it,\u201d said Leo, the first \u200cUS pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo warned on Friday that \u200bfreedom of expression is \u201crapidly shrinking\u201d in Western countries, and urged the right to conscientious objection for people who \u200crefuse military \u200cservice \u200cor \u2060for \u200bdoctors who \u200crefuse to perform abortions or euthanasia. \u201cIt is painful to see how, especially in the West, \u2060the space for genuine \u200cfreedom &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":92040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92041,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92024\/revisions\/92041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}