{"id":7086,"date":"2016-05-13T09:53:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:53:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:53:43","slug":"as-risen-hits-home-vid-market-stars-and-producers-talk-about-meeting-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2016\/05\/as-risen-hits-home-vid-market-stars-and-producers-talk-about-meeting-pope-francis.html","title":{"rendered":"As &#8220;Risen&#8221; hits home-vid market, stars and producers talk about meeting Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463141787455_4804\" class=\"yiv3053006215MsoNormal\"><strong>An audience with the Pope. <\/strong>The tables were turned when <em>Risen <\/em>stars Joseph Fiennes and Maria Botto and co-producers Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon found themselves as star-struck audience members. Here they are talking about their meeting with Pope Francis at The Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rVUClEHO-mA<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1463141787455_4751\" class=\"yiv3053006215MsoNormal\"><em>Risen,<\/em> which was in theaters last February, debuted on digital earlier this week. It will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Risen-Cliff-Curtis\/dp\/B01BZ4DS58\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1462809283&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=risen+dvd\">available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD<\/a> on Tuesday, May 24.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"RISEN: Available on Digital May 10 &amp; on Blu-ray and DVD May 24!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OX_PqW6saaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. An audience with the Pope. 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Here they are talking about their meeting with Pope Francis at The Vatican. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rVUClEHO-mA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4235,1085,18,24,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-easter","category-forgiveness","category-internet","category-movies","category-television","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>As &quot;Risen&quot; hits home-vid market, stars and producers talk about meeting Pope Francis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2016\/05\/as-risen-hits-home-vid-market-stars-and-producers-talk-about-meeting-pope-francis.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"As &quot;Risen&quot; hits home-vid market, stars and producers talk about meeting Pope Francis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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