{"id":306,"date":"2014-12-29T22:41:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=306"},"modified":"2014-12-29T22:41:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:41:38","slug":"would-be-papal-assassin-mehmet-ali-agca-expelled-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Would-be papal assassin Mehmet Ali Agca expelled from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/12\/29\/papal-assassin-mehmet-ali-agca-expelled-italy\/\">http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/12\/29\/papal-assassin-mehmet-ali-agca-expelled-italy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(RNS) Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who tried to assassinate St. John Paul II in 1981, was expelled from Italy on Monday (Dec. 29) after paying a visit to the tomb of the Polish pontiff.<\/p>\n<p>An Italian judge on Monday approved the expulsion of the former terrorist; he was scheduled to be sent back to Istanbul on a Turkish Airlines flight from Rome Monday night, police sources told the Italian news agency, ANSA.<\/p>\n<p>Agca\u2019s expulsion came two days after he placed flowers on the late pope\u2019s tomb in St. Peter\u2019s Basilica on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Agca, 56, served 19 years for his crime in Italy, where John Paul famously visited him in prison. He was then deported to his native Turkey, where he served further time for the murder of left-wing journalist Abdi Ipekci, who was killed in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to go to the tomb of John Paul II, who visited me in prison,\u201d Agca told ANSA earlier this month. \u201cI couldn\u2019t go to his funeral so I would like to pay my respects to a spiritual brother.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/12\/29\/papal-assassin-mehmet-ali-agca-expelled-italy\/ (RNS) Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who tried to assassinate St. John Paul II in 1981, was expelled from Italy on Monday (Dec. 29) after paying a visit to the tomb of the Polish pontiff. An Italian judge on Monday approved the expulsion of the former terrorist; he was scheduled to be sent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Would-be papal assassin Mehmet Ali Agca expelled from Italy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}