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>3037 Edition

>May 10~16, 2010

Taiwanese pray for their motherland on Mother’s Day

>Reported by Chiou Kuo-rong

>Written by Lydia Ma

Taiwan United Nations Alliance (TAUNA) held a candlelight prayer  vigil on the 
night of May 9

at Chung-Shan Presbyterian Church in Taipei. The purpose of the  vigil was to 
pray for Taiwan

during such disquieting times. Leaders from PCT Seven Stars,  Taipei, and East 
Amis

>presbyteries also took part in this event.

According to TAUNA, the word “pain” and “love”  share the same sound in 
Taiwanese. It

organized this prayer vigil with churches on Mother’s Day to  remember with 
gratitude every

mother’s sacrifice, love, and care for her children.

However, Taiwan is also a mother to Taiwanese people and God has  used this 
country to

nourish and nurture them. Sadly, Taiwanese people’s  motherland has been under 
a lot of

>stress in the past year or so.

Due to an incompetent government with sights set exclusively on  China, Taiwan’s

unemployment rate has increased and the gap between rich and poor  has widened

significantly. Furthermore, the KMT still claims a large sum of  the national 
treasury’s money as

its own and the judiciary is corrupt and unrighteous, said TAUNA  leaders.

They also expressed concern about ECFA and how it was being used  by China and 
KMT as

a tool to lure Taiwanese people into China’s fold beginning  with an economic 
takeover.

It is precisely these concerns that prompted TAUNA and several PCT  
presbyteries to use this

year’s Mother’s Day as an occasion to pray to God for  the national sovereignty 
and territorial

integrity of Taiwan. Their prayer is that God would protect Taiwan  from being 
betrayed into

>China’s hands.

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