ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholics respond to Nuncio’s call to join Pope Benedict XVI’s prayer on Sunday 23 July for peace in the Middle East

Saturday, 22 July 2006

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Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Catholics in the Philippines will join the call to pray on Sunday 23 July for peace in the Middle East launched by Pope Benedict XVI. People in the Philippines are deeply concerned for the tragic situation in that region of Asia where there are many Filipino emigrant workers. In the Philippines many families depend on money sent home by emigrants abroad.
The Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, Archbishop Fernando Filoni (until recently Nuncio to Iraq) sent a letter to the Bishops’ Conference including the Pope’s request made at the midday Angelus prayer on 16 July, calling for prayers for peace in every diocese and parish.
Immediately the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, on retreat in Bacolod City, wrote to all the Bishops asking them to spread the Pope’s request and to organise special prayers for peace in dioceses, parishes, movements and associations and to condemn violence and acts of violent retaliation.
Archbishop Lagdameo invoked the intercession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a devotion which originated at Mount Carmel overlooking the Israeli city of Haifa only a few kilometres from the border with Lebanon, recalling the words of Pope Benedict XVI “May Mary Queen of Peace interceded for the gift of harmony opening the way for dialogue and agreement”. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 22/7/2006 righe 26 parole 269)