-A man dies and comes back to life… There are hundreds of other stories like this on the internet. Your opinions?
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080129-115440/Dead-man-comes-back-to-life-during-Pampanga-healing
Dead man comes back to life during Pampanga healing
By Tonette Orejas
Central Luzon Desk
First Posted 05:51:00 01/29/2008
MEXICO, PAMPANGA — A man died in his wheelchair while healing priest Fr. Fernando Suarez was celebrating Mass here Monday.
He came back to life 20 minutes later as he was being taken to a hospital, witnesses said.
“I checked his pulse, his neck and stomach. I didn’t hear a beat. I thought he was dead,” Fr. Nap Baltazar told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “Nakayupayop na (He was already lifeless).”
This happened during the homily at Suarez’s 10 a.m. Mass, he added.
Baltazar said he whispered the sad news to Suarez.
“Father Suarez said, ‘Wala tayong magagawa (There’s nothing we can do).’ He made the sign of cross in the air in the direction of the man [who had just died],” he recounted.
Still breathing
The man was already on a stretcher, being loaded into an ambulance. On the way to the hospital, the man’s relatives noticed he had started breathing, according to architect Nestor Mangio, who hosted the healing Mass at the Lakeshore Estate here.
Baltazar said the ambulance turned back and the man was wheeled back – alive — in time for Holy Communion.
His relatives gave testimony, sending the crowd of some 20,000 people clapping, praying and shouting with joy, Mangio said.
In the midst of the rejoicing, no one thought of getting the man’s name.
Fr. Jeff Shannon, who belongs to the same order as Suarez, the Companions of the Cross, said the man was in his 50s or 60s.
Two died in Olongapo
Then he and his relatives left and disappeared in the crowd.
Mangio narrated the incident during the 3 p.m. press conference held here Monday.
The Inquirer asked Suarez about the two people who reportedly suffocated and died in the packed hall of the Parish of the Holy Trinity in Olongapo City during a healing session on Saturday.
Deedee Siytangco, who calls herself a media servant in Suarez’s healing ministry, said Suarez was “not aware” of the Olongapo incidents.
Terminally ill
Paz Monteclaro, Suarez’s coordinator in the parishes, clarified that the first man died a day before Suarez arrived.
“His relatives were hoping for a miracle, so they took a chance and brought him there,” Monteclaro said at the press conference.
The second man died outside the Church and away from the crowd, she said.
“He died [far] away from Father Suarez,” Monteclaro stressed. Quoting parish priest Fr. Rey Mangalandan, she said both men were terminally ill with cancer.
‘God heals, not me’
Told about the Olongapo incidents, Suarez said: “I feel sorry for these people and [I’ve] prayed for them.
“The situation in our country is so sad. The poor are deprived of access to health. They’re desperate and helpless. God’s healing ministry gives them a glimpse of hope, gives back their dignity and tells them that Someone really cares,” he said.
Suarez clarified that his ministry was not just about physical healing.
“Healing is holistic and the medium is the Eucharist and prayers,” he said. “It is God that heals, not me.”
In the same press conference, a woman told reporters she had been healed of stomach cancer since Suarez prayed over and touched her stomach two weeks ago.
Could all these stories be a simple coincidence of science??? Everything can’t JUST be a coincidence or science.
@ Lisa: Do you really think they would put this up on news without proper investigation? If she really were lying and people found out, that wouldn’t be very good for the reporters now would it?
God bless you! atheists need alot of help. only God can do it.
January 25th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I could tell you stories like this about pagans, too. We believe in reiki and other healing arts that mesh with our religious beliefs. But of course THOSE you would say are total bunkum, now, wouldn’t you?
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January 25th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
God bless you! atheists need alot of help. only God can do it.
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January 25th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
There are several medical conditions that resemble death…
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January 25th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Your presence puts me in a truly albino mood.
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January 25th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
It happens, and has nothing at all to do with the Jesus myth.
Rev. Neil
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January 25th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I have no opinion. I just don’t care.
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January 25th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I have no opinion other than medical diagnoses should not be made be people who are not medically qualified to do so. Also, spontaneous remission of terminal illness is uncommon, but not unheard of.
You aren’t trying to suggest that these are examples of divine intervention, are you?
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January 25th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
When someone is brought back to life after being clinically proven to be dead I’ll give up consulting medical doctors and go to a church instead of hospital. What sort of god plays conjuring tricks.
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January 25th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
This sort of thing allegedly happens to members of all faiths. But nothing brings more people back from the dead than science.
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January 25th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
My atheist opinion is that you need to open your mind to the facts. "A woman told reporters she was cured of stomach cancer". Was her doctor and oncologist present to support this claim?
I am skeptical of anything like this. You take an example of some bizarre occurance and put God in the equation to answer the question, when anything can be explained by science if we look hard enough. This is not unbiased journalism, either, or they would have confirmed the woman did indeed get cured of cancer.
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My smart, thinking for itself brain.
January 25th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
The simplest answer? These people weren’t actually dead, and the medical staff made a mistake in thinking they were.
It’s not that unbelievable that mistakes like this get made, it’s just they always make the headlines because they have so much impact. It’s a lot easier to believe than that they died and came back to life!
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January 25th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
I’d like to point out that there are many medical conditions that would give one the appearance of being dead. Also, the father in the little story said, "I thought he was dead," not, "he was dead."
I once heard a story of a woman who had breast cancer, and then she prayed, and in the morning it was gone. Turns out, she felt a lump, assumed it was cancer, prayed, and the tumor went away. Not once did she see a doctor. So the most reasonable explanation is that it was never malignant to begin with.
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January 25th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
@ silent H
Please show me one where you can die for 3 days with no breathing, no heart beat and no brain activity… this happened to one guy in Africa…impossible…the atheist won’t believe even if Jesus appeared in front of you and gave you a slap to wake you up….predestination entails that there are lost causes in this world, people that are spiritually dead..and you people know who you are.
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