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Thursday, November 04, 2004
CBCP calls for prayers for Nayan
THE Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippine (CBCP) urged Filipinos to continue praying for the safe release of Filipino diplomat Angelito Nayan, who is being held by Afghan militants.
Nayan, who is working as an UN observer for the elections in Afghanistan, was abducted last week by a splinter group of the Taliban. The abductors have demanded for the pullout of UN groups in Afghanistan as a condition for his and two other UN workers' release.
"We ask our people to continue to pray for the safety of Mr. Nayan and his companions, for faith and hope for their families, for enlightenment for the negotiators, and for the spirit of love to prevail in the hearts and minds of their abductors," said a statement from CBCP President Fernando Capalla Wednesday.
Capalla said prayer is the only thing that will sustain the nation when all human efforts have been exhausted for Nayan's release.
"We continue to believe that in these troubled times we are living, prayer sustains us even when all other human efforts seem to fail; prayer makes us remember that we are all children of the same God," said Capalla.
Nayan's relatives earlier appealed to his abductors to release him in the spirit of Ramadan, which is being observed by Muslims all over the world. (Marie Neri)
(November 4, 2004 issue)
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