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Fil-Swiss joins Vatican guard
Robertzon Ramirez (The Philippine Star ) - October 10, 2020 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — A 21-year-old Filipino-Swiss is making history in the Vatican for being the first Filipino to join the Pontifical Swiss Guard, the elite corps of soldiers who has been protecting the pope since 1506.
In an article, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said Lt. Vincent Lüthi was one of the 38 new recruits who took their oath of allegiance to Pope Francis at the Vatican last Oct. 4.
Lüthi is the only child of a Swiss father and a Filipino mother who hails from Santa Fe town in Bantayan Island, Cebu province.
Lüthi’s mother Marma Marigomen was not
available for comment yesterday, but expressed on her Facebook page that she is proud of her son.
She wrote “fidelity, loyalty, and honor” as a caption to two photos of her son while serving Pope Francis.
“Vincent is God’s blessing to us as a Pontifical Swiss Guard, congratulations,” Evelyn Monsanto, friend of Marigomen-Lüthi, said in a comment section of one of her Facebook posts.
The CBCP said the oath-taking ceremony for the new Swiss Guard was supposed to take place in May, but was postponed to this month due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It added that the ceremony was also held privately due to current health restrictions in the Vatican.
Pope Francis thanked the parents of the newly-recruited Swiss guards for choosing to dedicate “a period of their youth in the service of the Successor of Peter” as he told them that their time spent in the Vatican “is a unique moment in your life.”
“May you live it in a spirit of fraternity, helping one another to lead a meaningful and joyful Christian life,” Pope Francis said.
“The presence of your family members expresses the devotion of Swiss Catholics to the Holy See, as well as the moral education and good example by which parents have passed on to their children the Christian faith and the sense of generous service to their neighbor,” he added.
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2020/10/10/2048500/fil-swiss-joins-vatican-guard
Wait for it…
Moves and Counter moves
Do Pawns lives matter?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines
Colonization began when Spanish explorer Miguel López de Legazpi arrived from Mexico in 1565.[72][73][74] In 1571, the Spanish Manila became the capital of the Spanish East Indies,[75] which also encompassed, under varying time frames, the Marianas, Carolines, Palaos and Guam,[76] as well as parts of Taiwan,[77] Sulawesi,[78] and the Moluccas.[79] The Spanish considered their war with the Muslims in Southeast Asia an extension of the Reconquista.[80] Colonizers invaded different local states through the divide and conquer principle.[81] The 1587 Tondo Conspiracy, which attempted to overthrow the colonizers and install the native noble Agustin de Legazpi as Monarch,[82] failed[83] leading to the downfall of numerous native nobles.[84]
Spanish rule brought most parts, not all, of the Philippines into a single unified administration.[74][85][86] From 1565 to 1821, the Philippines was governed as part of the Mexico-based Viceroyalty of New Spain, later administered from Madrid following the Mexican War of Independence.[87] Manila galleons were constructed in the Philippines.[88][89] Manila was the western hub of the trans-Pacific trade.[90]
Darul Jambangan (Palace of Flowers) was the seat of power of the Sultanate of Sulu.
Under Spanish rule, Catholic missionaries converted most of the lowland inhabitants who adhered to indigenous religions into colonial Christianity,[91] often done through brutal means,[92][93][94] such as genocide.[95] Colonizers founded schools, a university, hospitals, and churches,[96] by imposing an inhumane system of unpaid labor, called polo, among the natives.[97][98] Military fortresses were established to defend colonial settlements.[99] Natives were enrolled in catechism schools to convert them further into Christianity, while higher Spanish schools barred any native from enrolling.[100] Free public schooling was made only in 1863, as an aftermath of a law in Spain which affected the colony,[101] however, for more than two-thirds of Spanish colonial rule, education was not available to the natives on equal terms with the Spanish.[100] Slavery was utilized by colonizers, but later abolished by decree, although the practice still continued.[102][103][104] The population increased partly to some policies imposed by the Spanish.[105][106]
The Philippines is a secular state which protects freedom of religion. Christianity is the dominant faith,[413][414] shared by over 90% of the population.[415] Census data from 2015 found that about 79.53% of the population professed Catholicism.[416] Around 37% of the population regularly attend Mass. 29% of self-identified Catholics consider themselves very religious.[417] An independent Catholic church, the Philippine Independent Church, has around 66,959 adherents.[416]
ZERO COINCIDENCES
BURNING MONK
Thích Quảng Đức
In a country where surveys of the religious composition at the time estimated the Buddhist majority to be between 70 and 90 percent,[10][11][12][13] President Diệm was a member of the Catholic minority, and pursued discriminatory policies favoring Catholics for public service and military promotions, as well as in the allocation of land, business arrangements and tax concessions.[14] Diệm once told a high-ranking officer, forgetting that the officer was from a Buddhist family, "Put your Catholic officers in sensitive places. They can be trusted."[15] Many officers in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) converted to Roman Catholicism as their military prospects depended on it.[15] Additionally, the distribution of firearms to village self-defense militias saw weapons given only to Roman Catholics, with some Buddhists in the army being denied promotion if they refused to convert to Roman Catholicism.[16]
Some Catholic priests ran their own private armies,[17] and there were forced conversions and looting, shelling, and demolition of pagodas in some areas, to which the government turned a blind eye.[18] Some Buddhist villages converted en masse to receive aid or avoid being forcibly resettled by Diệm's regime.[19] The "private" status that was imposed on Buddhism by the French, which required official permission to be obtained by those wishing to conduct public Buddhist activities, was not repealed by Diệm.[20] Catholics were also de facto exempt from corvée labor, which the government obliged all citizens to perform, and United States aid was distributed disproportionately to Catholic majority villages by Diệm's regime.[21]
The Catholic Church was the largest landowner in the country and enjoyed special exemptions in property acquisition, and land owned by the Catholic Church was exempt from land reform.[22] The white and gold Vatican flag was regularly flown at all major public events in South Vietnam,[23] and Diệm dedicated his country to the Virgin Mary in 1959.[21]
BREAK
On 10 June 1963, U.S. correspondents were informed that "something important" would happen the following morning on the road outside the Cambodian embassy in Saigon.[26] Most of the reporters disregarded the message, since the Buddhist crisis had at that point been going on for more than a month, and the next day only a few journalists turned up, including David Halberstam of The New York Times and Malcolm Browne, the Saigon bureau chief for the Associated Press (AP).[26] Quảng Đức arrived as part of a procession that had begun at a nearby pagoda. Around 350 monks and nuns marched in two phalanxes, preceded by an Austin Westminster sedan, carrying banners printed in both English and Vietnamese. They denounced the Diệm government and its policy towards Buddhists, demanding that it fulfill its promises of religious equality.[26] Another monk offered himself, but Quảng Đức's seniority prevailed.[4]
The act occurred at the intersection[b] of Phan Đình Phùng Boulevard (now Nguyễn Đình Chiểu Street) and Lê Văn Duyệt Street (now Cách Mạng Tháng Tám Street) (10.7750°N 106.6868°E), a few blocks southwest of the Presidential Palace (now the Reunification Palace). Quảng Đức emerged from the car along with two other monks. One placed a cushion on the road while the second opened the trunk and took out a five-gallon petrol can. As the marchers formed a circle around him, Quảng Đức calmly sat down in the traditional Buddhist meditative lotus position on the cushion. A colleague emptied the contents of the petrol container over Quảng Đức's head. Quảng Đức rotated a string of wooden prayer beads and recited the words Nam mô A Di Đà Phật ("Homage to Amitābha Buddha") before striking a match and dropping it on himself. Flames consumed his robes and flesh, and black oily smoke emanated from his burning body.[26][27]
Quảng Đức's last words before his self-immolation were documented in a letter he had left:
"Before closing my eyes and moving towards the vision of the Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngô Đình Diệm to take a mind of compassion towards the people of the nation and implement religious equality to maintain the strength of the homeland eternally. I call the venerables, reverends, members of the sangha and the lay Buddhists to organize in solidarity to make sacrifices to protect Buddhism."[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem
There are many more of these non coincidences to consider. What little bit of truth that can be gleaned from the examination of History should be. Especially now.
I can understand how those who understand what all of this implies are extremely fearful of any real "Map" building.
Could some of these wars have been less motivated by greed and more by the desire for mind/religious control over the "natives" which makes the exploitation of the resources almost effortless?
Did we really go to Vietnam to help French colonists and/or to stop the spread of communism? Did we really go into Korean to stop Communism? Many new patterns begin to appear when you look at History through the lens of Religion.
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