Archbishop Socrates Villegas says that ‘if God is with us, no power can ever prevail against us’
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In a pastoral letter, Villegas cited evidence of “insidious attempts” to trample on “our sacred shores.” Referring to China, he attributed these to “a foreign power that governs by an ideology that recognizes no God and keeps all religion and the practice of faith under the heavy heel of its totalitarian boot.”against Philippine Coast Guard vessels” in the West Philippine Sea, part of the South China Sea that belongs to the Philippines but is claimed by China.
The supposed benefits of POGOs, Villegas explained, “are overshadowed completely by the threat they carry with them – and in fact, the dreadful harm of their presence.” “The Church must respond – and she must respond as Church. This means that we will find the confidence to take a firm stand because of our conviction that if God is with us, no power can ever prevail against us!” said Villegas.in Fatima, Portugal, that “Russia would be converted” if Catholics prayed the rosary. Back then, he said, it was “the height of Soviet power, when it seemed invincible and it had won over close to a third of the world’s population to its ideology.
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