{"id":55612,"date":"2015-07-14T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T01:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55612"},"modified":"2015-07-14T11:05:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T03:05:49","slug":"cbcp-urges-filipinos-to-pray-for-protection-in-sea-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/14\/cbcp-urges-filipinos-to-pray-for-protection-in-sea-row\/","title":{"rendered":"CBCP urges Filipinos to pray for protection in sea row"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Socrates-Villegas-CBCP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24109\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Socrates-Villegas-CBCP-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas (CBCP News photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Socrates-Villegas-CBCP-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Socrates-Villegas-CBCP.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas (CBCP News photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference of the Philippines ordered an Oratio Imperata, an obligatory prayer for all Catholics, amid the ongoing trial in the United Nations arbitral court to\u00a0resolve the ongoing\u00a0territorial dispute with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have an Oratio Imperata, which is an obligatory prayer for all Catholics in all the dioceses to be prayed so that the tension may ease, and justice, equality and prosperity may be served,\u201d Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas president of the CBCP\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>He made the statement during a press briefing at the end of the three-day plenary assembly of the CBCP yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Villegas said that prayers are what Filipinos could offer amid the rising tension in the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe (bishops) don\u2019t have the means to negotiate with the superpowers, we cannot represent the Philippines in the international court, but we can certainly represent the Philippines before God and ask [Him], the sure source of peace, to take care of the Philippines,\u201d Villegas said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the conference had the right to care about the territorial dispute as it is a\u00a0\u201ca problem of peace&#8221; and added that &#8220;peace is the mission of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that the tension there will not be solved through people alone but through God\u2019s grace,\u201d Villegas added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Catholic Bishops&#8217; Conference of the Philippines ordered an Oratio Imperata, an obligatory prayer for all Catholics, amid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55612","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=55612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}