{"id":1864,"date":"2026-01-14T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:49:01","slug":"vaticans-cardinal-parolin-visits-kuwait-for-historic-basilica-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/2026\/01\/14\/vaticans-cardinal-parolin-visits-kuwait-for-historic-basilica-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican\u2019s Cardinal Parolin Visits Kuwait for Historic Basilica Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican\u2019s Secretary of State, has arrived in Kuwait for a three-day official visit. The visit centers on the elevation of Our Lady of Arabia Church in Ahmadi to a minor basilica the first such designation in the Arabian Peninsula. Cardinal Parolin will preside over the formal ceremony on January 16.<\/p><p>Monsignor Eugene Martin Nugent, the Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait, highlighted the church&#8217;s historical role as a spiritual hub for Catholics in the Gulf since 1958. He noted Kuwait&#8217;s unique position as the first Gulf state to establish diplomatic ties with the Holy See in 1968 and praised the country&#8217;s tradition of religious coexistence. The visit aims to strengthen bilateral relations and underscore the Vatican&#8217;s commitment to interfaith dialogue in the region.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican\u2019s Secretary of State, has arrived in Kuwait for a three-day official visit. The visit centers on the elevation of Our Lady of Arabia Church in Ahmadi to a minor basilica the first such designation in the Arabian Peninsula. Cardinal Parolin will preside over the formal ceremony on January 16. Monsignor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kuwait-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorsnewslive.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}