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More than 200 Filipino delegates to a Divine Mercy Congress in Poland joined in praying for holocaust victims during the Second World War, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said. According to a report of Melo Acuña on the CBCP website, the Filipino delegates are attending the Second Apostolic Congress on Divine Mercy in Krakow, Poland. The Philippine delegation includes some bishops such as:
Lipa Archbishop Ramon V. Arguelles;
Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, S.J.;
Kidapawan Bishop Romulo dela Cruz;
Malolos Bishop Jose Oliveros;
Antipolo Auxiliary Bishop Francisco de Leon, and
Novaliches Bishop Antonio Tobias. The CBCP report quoted Arguelles as saying, “Our group is the biggest bishops’ delegation outside Poland." Divine Mercy Congress Some 2,000 delegates from 68 countries participated in the World Apostolic Congress on Mercy in Poland from October 1 to 5. The "Divine Mercy" is a Catholic devotion to the merciful love of God. The devotion to Jesus Christ as the "Divine Mercy" was based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun. According to EWTN.com, "From the diary of a young Polish nun, a special devotion began spreading throughout the world in the 1930s. The message is nothing new, but is a reminder of what the Church has always taught through scripture and tradition: that God is merciful and forgiving and that we, too, must show mercy and forgiveness." EWTN said, Kowalska, "in obedience to her spiritual director, wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording the revelations she received about God’s mercy. Even before her death in 1938, the devotion to The Divine Mercy had begun to spread." Holocaust victims The CBCP said one of the highlights of the Apostolic Congress was the visit to the Auschwitz Birkenau, a German Nazi concentration and extermination Camp from May 1940 to January 1945. At Auschwitz, the congress delegates prayed for the millions of holocaust victims who died during the Second World War. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), "The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators." USHMM said "holocaust" is a term that originated from the Greek words that mean "sacrifice by fire." In 1933, there were about nine million Jews in Europe. However, the Germans and their collaborators carried out the "Final Solution" a Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe as they were regarded as a "priority danger to Germany," USHMM said. By 1945, "the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews," USHMM stated. - VVP, GMA News
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