PRAYERS CAN HELP SAVE A COUNTRY FROM MORE DISASTERS: Pres Aquino to ask Pope to pray for Philippines

Prayers for the country as it is pummeled by typhoon after typhoon. This is what President Benigno Aquino III said he would ask Pope Francis when the Pontiff visits the country in January. “We are visited by so many typhoons and they come at very unseasonal moments and they’re very strong,” Mr. Aquino said at the Bulong Pulungan forum, when asked what he would ask the Pope to pray for. The highlight of the Pope’s trip is a visit to Tacloban City, ravaged by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) last year. Mr. Aquino said the country had endured a “cycle of destruction and reconstruction” for years. He stressed the government’s goal was to reconstruct better. Read more: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/115129/aquino-to-ask-pope-to-pray-for-ph/#ixzz3LMe8z2os Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook