Return of the exorcists
| AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
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| Ken Fuller |
This week, our attention turns to matters spiritual.
The Philippines has, or thinks it has, a formidable new foreign policy tool — prayer. As Vice President Binay flew to Beijing to intercede in behalf of three convicted drug mules sentenced to death, President Aquino, finding that his counterpart Hu Jintao was not taking his call, rallied the nation: “May I call on all Filipinos, led by our religious leaders of all faiths to unite ourselves in prayer beginning at sundown, at the pealing of the bell for the Angelus or during the most quiet and meditative times consistent with our respective faiths. All our prayers will soar to touch the heart of God — the God who ‘will make a way where there seems to be no way.’”
After the Chinese authorities postponed the executions, Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. tried his hand at the new tool: “Allow me to ask that you continue praying for our three countrymen in China who are currently on death row so that we may possibly be given another miracle — commutation of the sentences of our kababayans.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110301com5.html
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