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Kiwis encouraged to pray for election

NZ Catholic Staff — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:43:35 +0000

By NZ CATHOLIC staff
WELLINGTON — New Zealand Christian Network is encouraging Kiwis to pray for the upcoming election.
National director Glyn Carpenter said: “Maybe this election will be the one where New Zealanders realise that government does not have all the answers — far from it — and that it’s time to turn back to God.”
What would turning to God do for New Zealand, he asked?
The Methodist pastor of Westminster Central Hall, London, W.E. Sangster, addressed that question in a sermon in 1953. His answer:
1.) Pay old debts; 2.) reduce sexual immorality; 3.) disinfect the theatre [read “television and media” in 2011]; 4.) cut the divorce rate; 5.) reduce juvenile crime; 6.) reduce the prison population; 7.) improve the quality and increase the output of work; 8.) restore a high sense of destiny for the nation; 9.) make the country invincible in the war of ideas; 10.) give happiness and peace to all people.
“It would do the same sorts of things for New Zealand today,” Mr Carpenter said. “Just think how much the country would save.
“Political wrangling over tax rates and welfare levels, and tweaking education and healthcare services and funding, look ominously like Nero fiddling while Rome burns.”
Pray — and vote well, he said.

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Vatican invites the sick and suffering to help priests through prayer

Vatican City (CNS) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) The Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry has invited the sick and suffering of the world to help the Church through prayer and by offering up their suffering during the Year for Priests. echo $variable;

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Pope assures Anglicans he is praying for Lambeth Conference

Michael Otto — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0000

CANTERBURY, England (CNS) Pope Benedict XVI has assured Anglicans meeting for their once-a-decade worldwide conference that he and other Catholics are praying for them. In a message to Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, spiritual head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said the pope was "mindful that

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