{"id":127536,"date":"2017-10-30T22:01:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T02:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=127536"},"modified":"2017-10-30T22:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T02:01:20","slug":"prelates-urge-prayers-for-marawi-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/30\/prelates-urge-prayers-for-marawi-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Prelates urge prayers for Marawi fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109616\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8-3-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109616\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/8-3-7.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Marawi City Bishop Edwin dela Pe\u00f1a will ask the faithful under his diocese to pray for the souls of more than 1,000 people who died in the five-month long battle between government forces and Maute group in the city. (PNA photo)\" width=\"120\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Marawi City Bishop Edwin dela Pe\u00f1a will ask the faithful under his diocese to pray for the souls of more than 1,000 people who died in the five-month long battle between government forces and Maute group in the city. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Catholic prelates asked the faithful to pray for their departed loved ones as well as the victims of the recent fighting in Marawi City in line with the country&#8217;s observance of All Saints\u2019 Day and All Souls\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p>Marawi City Bishop Edwin dela Pe\u00f1a will ask the faithful under his diocese to pray for the souls of more than 1,000 people who died in the five-month long battle between government forces and Maute group in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other dioceses and local churches can join in praying for all who died in Marawi, especially our gallant soldiers who gave their lives so that we can live in peace, the civilians and hostages, including our working students, who lost their lives in the process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to ritualize our grieving and mourning especially that there are no bodies to mourn with,\u201d the Catholic prelate added.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Fr. Jerome Secillano, Executive Secretary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-Public Affairs Committee (CBCP-PAC) said that it is part of the duty of Christians to pray for the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, it is a Christian obligation to pray for the dead. I encourage the people to pray not only for their dead relatives and friends but to pray also for those who perished in the war on drugs and Marawi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pray that the Lord may give them eternal peace away from the violent and destructive ways of the world,\u201d the Catholic priest added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Catholic prelates asked the faithful to pray for their departed loved ones as well as the victims of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[18288,30473,30474],"class_list":["post-127536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-catholic-prelates","tag-marawi-fatalities","tag-prayers","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}