{"id":19,"date":"2008-01-04T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T01:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/and-the-poor-have-the-gospel-preached-to-them-19.htm"},"modified":"2008-01-08T22:15:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T04:15:46","slug":"and-the-poor-have-the-gospel-preached-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/and-the-poor-have-the-gospel-preached-to-them-19.htm","title":{"rendered":"…and the Poor Have the Gospel Preached to Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p>Philip Jenkins, in his books The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/a> and The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/a>,\u00a0 has argued that the future of Christianity is in the Third World<\/st1:place>. For the people of that world, the Bible is not an ancient book to be demythologized and reinterpreted, but fits exactly with how they experience a world: ruled by demons and illness and oppressors, from which the power of God can deliver them.<\/font>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p>The Filipino priest\u00a0 <\/span>Fernando Suarez<\/a> said that when he was a teenager he discovered that when he prayed for people they were healed (gracias to New Oxford Review<\/a>).<\/font>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p> In Canada<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, he was called to the hospital for a dying woman.<\/font>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

<\/o:p>\u00a0A Canadian woman declared dead eight hours earlier, her organs ready to be harvested and donated, suddenly opened her eyes after Filipino priest Fr. Fernando Suarez prayed over her.<\/o:p><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/o:p><\/span>In his ministry, Suarez has a quiet approach:<\/o:p><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Suarez goes about it gently, in his own soothing way, touching, praying over people, pleading for healing. And because he wants everything centered in the Eucharist, he always begins with a Holy Mass.<\/font><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/span>According to witnesses, things happen when Suarez prays:<\/o:p><\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Businessman Greg Monteclaro of Couples for Christ-Gawad Kalinga has seen it all. \u201cExcept the raising of the dead,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the deaf hear, the blind see, the lame walk — all that is told in the Bible — I have seen it happen.\u201d<\/font><\/span>\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cAll that is told in the Bible\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0seems to hold much more sway in the Third World than in the First World<\/st1:place>. Perhaps this helps explain the vehemence of the objections coming from the Third World Anglicans, especially Africans, towards the Episcopal Church which seems to set aside the authority \u2013 and therefore the power \u2013 of the Bible.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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