{"id":48122,"date":"2015-05-02T19:21:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T11:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=48122"},"modified":"2015-05-03T01:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T17:48:21","slug":"no-betting-but-praying-for-pacquiaos-victory-catholic-priest-urges-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/02\/no-betting-but-praying-for-pacquiaos-victory-catholic-priest-urges-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"No betting but praying for Pacquiao&#8217;s victory, Catholic priest urges fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32605\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Manny-Pacquiao-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32605\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Manny-Pacquiao-3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of @mannypacquiao on Twitter\" width=\"659\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Manny-Pacquiao-3.jpg 659w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Manny-Pacquiao-3-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of @mannypacquiao on Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A Catholic priest said Filipinos who are rooting for Filipino boxing champ Manny \u201cPacman\u201d Pacquiao can show their support to him by praying for him and not betting their money on him.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fr. Edu Gariguez, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP-NASSA), the people instead of using their money to bet on the fight of Pacquaio against Floyd Mayweather, they can donate it to those who are in need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupport na lang dasal, manood ng television kasama kapwa mo Filipino pero huwag bet sa game kasi una masama \u2018yung gambling at pangalawa e \u2018yung pera na gamitin diyan e sayang lang kasi maraming tao ang nangangailangan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The CBCP-NASSA official is hoping that the people will have social conscience in looking after other people especially the poor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSana meron tayo ganitong social conscience&#8230;kasi kapag may kunsensya ka sa mahihirap lalo na ngayon Year of the Poor&#8230;alam mo na malaki itong pera na ito na pwede makatulong sa iba&#8230;\u201d Gariguez said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cKung sana \u2018yung mga pera e magamit sa pagtulong sa mahihirap e di mas maganda. \u2018Yung napakaliit na kaligayahan kung tutuusin malaking tulong na sa mga isang kahig, isang tuka na mga kababayan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gariguez also urged the people to learn the stewardship concept that money is a blessing from God and use it wisely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Yung stewardship concept na ang pera ay hindi para sa \u2018yo kundi bigay \u2018yan sayo ng Diyos, grasya sa \u2019yo yan ng Diyos para gamitin mo din sa mabuti at ayon sa jnyong kalooban at bahagi noon e \u2018yung pagtulong sa iba,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Pacquiao \u2013 Mayweather bout will be held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A Catholic priest said Filipinos who are rooting for Filipino boxing champ Manny \u201cPacman\u201d Pacquiao can show their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":32605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-sports","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48122","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}