FREEDOM’S PRAYER
DEVOUT FILIPINOS ; ASPIRE TO INDEPENDENCE. \ r IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIALS, f I• ' ' I (Received 11 a.m.) • ; ■ ' MANILA, February 22. » On the occasion of George Wash* [ington’s birthday several thousand, I Filipinos gathered at L'uneta and listened to a service in accordance withf the rites of the Roman Catholic Church! and to the reading of a national prayer for Phillipinc independence. The' entire crowd knelt on the ground during the reading of the official Independence prayer adopted, for the occasion. *
Filipino Independent church services' and Union Protestant prayer services were held in various parts of the city,. and services wore also hold in the provinces, except in regions inhabited byp Mohammedans ail’d ’ non-Christians.— Reuter. . ;
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Northern Advocate, 23 February 1926, Page 5
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