Philippine typhoon victims remember Pope Francis Hope

Tacloban: Fourteen months after the deadliest storm in the history of the Philippine, Pope Francis stood on a rain-fed platform, to convey a message of hope to the Taclobon’s baton city. It was in dire need, Mayor Alfred Romueldez told AFP On Tuesday, a day after Pontif’s death in Rome.
Already in the late 70s, the Pope insisted on traveling to the central Philippines of January 2015 despite a storm. “He did not need to do so. He did not have to come here in bad weather. He could wait for three or four days.”
Just a year ago, Super typhoon haiyan More than 7,000 people were killed or missing after being slammed into the late province and surrounding areas.
The storm and large-scale waves level the entire coastal communities, which were already among the poorest people in the Catholic-Bahul country, causing large-scale tombs, houses collapsed and surprised the remaining people in view of it.
“(People) were asking a lot of questions, and they were important questions. It impressed their faith … they were shattered,” Romledage said. “We lost 500 children, so people were starting questioning … These children were innocent. They had to die?”
‘Was I a sinner?’
“Pope gave us hope,” Jenita Aguler said about her 2015 journey. His seven -year -old son Ruzin was one of the hundreds of lost children.
The 53 -year -old still recall the moment when Haiyan’s rising winds and flood waters ripped their son with their uncle’s arms as the family was clinging to the incomplete roof of a shop.
They used to spend two days passing through the villages of Taclobon, who find piles of the body – human and livestock – in the hope of finding it.
Sometimes she still survives her alive, rescued and imagines her living safely in someone else’s house, her parents’ memories got away from trauma.
“I was asking God why this was to happen. Was I a sinner?” He told AFP through tears. “I was asking if I was not a good mother.” Along with running a nail at her wedding, the leader said that she went out to catch a glimpse of the passing popmobile the day when Pope Francis spoke in the Taclobon.
For his surprise, Pontiff reached down and gave a blessing, a blessing. “It was an indication that the Lord still loved me,” he said, while holding a garland tightly, Pontiff handed it personally that day. “God used (Pope) as a bridge for me and my husband.”
A heart relaxed:
The neighbor of the leader Jina Henoso, 50, was from the sea of ​​200,000, which was seen in heavy rains that day, which was seen to operate his mass at the Taclobon Airport.
Like a thin yellow rainy clothes, similar to one to be worn on the pope stage, he left for two hours from his home. He said that it was nothing compared to those hours when he spent every day wandering in search of food after Hayana.
“When I saw him, I was reminiscent that I was really alive,” Henoso said, his voice was cracking. At the peak of the storm, he and his seven children were forced to squeeze into the neighbor’s tight toilets because they were waiting for the authorities to vacate them.
Henoso told AFP on Tuesday, “I still have nightmare what happened … I am still worried whenever it rains.” He described “walking for my children to see milk” with a dead body.
But the pain rained for him on January, he said. “The rain was hard, but when you see it in your popmobile, something about it makes your heart comfortably.”
‘With her flock’:
“How do you mourn … (when) You don’t have a roof on your head, you have a lot of dead, and you still have to prepare for your next food?” Father Chris Militante asked on Tuesday.
The priest, who worked as a media director for the ArchdayC of Palo, told the AFP that he had every reason to fear that his parisian will start doubting his trust after Hayan’s destruction. But when the Pope arrived in Tacloban, he did not pretend to give easy answers.
“Perhaps you have a lot of questions. Perhaps I don’t know the answer. But I am here,” he remembers the Pope Francis during the public. And this was his presence that matters, Militante said.
“Despite the destruction … God (Pope’s) was with us through the appearance,” he said about that day. “We didn’t worry.” After a decade, the priest said that he hoped that people would miss Pope Francis because he chooses – “with his flock” as a shepherd.
“(Pope Francis said) that you would have to smell like a sheep, and he did it.” He spoke. ” All eyes are now turning to Rome, where a conclave Pope Francis, the successor, the agent, the grieving mother, stresses that she knows what kind of man she is really right for the job. “Someone who will treat Filipino the way Pope Francis treated us,” he said. “Someone who will return to Tacloban again.”