Word: baclaran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commission computer workers, after leaving the tabulation center, drove across town to the Baclaran church, where several U.S. observers saw them after midnight...
...Baclaran, Mrs. Aquino, 53, widow of assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino, appeared at Masses in her honor. She was greeted with cheers of "Long live the president" and "Cory, Cory, Cory," her nickname...
...hand, there were memorable eruptions of unprogrammed exuberance. At Manila's Baclaran Church, John Paul's mere appearance sent 2,000 nuns into a wave of near ecstasy. During a pep rally at the University of Santo Tomás, tens of thousands of students lustily chanted "J.P. Two, We Love You-You Are Super." The highest pitch came in Cebu, the cradle of Philippine Catholicism, where the city's population doubled for the day. Thousands had waited in the open air since the previous night to catch a glimpse of the Pontiff...
...with the press and local politicians finished as alternative courts of appeal, Filipinos have turned increasingly to the Church, gratifying the activists and nudging the moderates towards the opposition. In places like Quiapo and Baclaran in Manila, in battle-ridden provinces like Samar and South Cotabato, Filipinos have always trudged to mass to pray for such amenities as rice and cooking oil. Now they ask the Church to help them find missing relatives or intercede with the military so they can return to their evacuated farms...
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