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More than four million people have been displaced — about the population of Kentucky. More than 1.
The death toll is more than 6, — the population of a small town. Numbers like that overwhelm everyone. I and others are visiting personally so that we can wrap our hearts and minds around the situation. This firsthand look will enable us to adequately convey to fellow Catholics the spiritual, physical and emotional extent of the damage. A mix of CRS staff and volunteers helped the distributions run smoothly and ensured that any problems could be dealt with using a structured system. Here, a tarp goes up on a damaged home as the distribution is taking place.
The Filipino diaspora in the United States, more than four million people, make up the second largest Asian-American community in our nation. They agonize for their homeland. This trip reflects solidarity of the church in the United States with Filipinos on both sides of the Pacific. The Philippines are 80 percent Catholic, the third largest Catholic country in the world, after Brazil and Mexico. Filipinos now seek to rebuild their infrastructure of schools, churches, hospitals and seminaries.
For these needs, the only source of help is other churches, who understand that faith sustains people.
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila will meet us to provide details. Having lived in the United States, he has full confidence and high hopes for the generosity of his sisters and brothers from the USA. The trip highlights the person-to-person solidarity that we feel for suffering people. They need soap, buckets, detergent and water purifying kits to prevent spread of disease. In addition, he was criminally indicted and, on June 20, , convicted of refusing induction into the U.
Although he remained free on bail, four years passed before his conviction was unanimously overturned by the U. Supreme Court on a narrow procedural ground. Having refused induction into the U. In October , Ali was allowed to return to boxing, but his skills had eroded. His reflexes, while still superb, were no longer as fast as they had once been.
Ali prevailed in his first two comeback fights, against Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bonavena. Following his loss to Frazier, Ali won 10 fights in a row, 8 of them against world-class opponents. Ali defeated Norton in a rematch.
After that he fought Joe Frazier a second time and won a unanimous round decision. On October 30, , Ali challenged George Foreman , who had dethroned Frazier in to become heavyweight champion of the world. Ali was received by the people of Zaire as a conquering hero, and he did his part by knocking out Foreman in the eighth round to regain the heavyweight title.
It was in this fight that Ali employed a strategy once used by former boxing great Archie Moore. Over the next 30 months, at the peak of his popularity as champion, Ali fought nine times in bouts that showed him to be a courageous fighter but a fighter on the decline. The most notable of these bouts occurred on October 1, , when Ali and Joe Frazier met in the Philippines , 6 miles 9. In he lost his title to Leon Spinks , a novice boxer with an Olympic gold medal but only seven professional fights to his credit.
Seven months later Ali regained the championship with a round victory over Spinks. Then he retired from boxing, but two years later he made an ill-advised comeback and suffered a horrible beating at the hands of Larry Holmes in a bout that was stopped after 11 rounds. But perhaps more important, he had courage and all the other intangibles that go into making a great fighter.
Damage to his brain caused by blows to the head resulted in slurred speech, slowed movement, and other symptoms of Parkinson syndrome. His earlier adherence to the teachings of Elijah Muhammad e. He had nine children, most of whom avoided the spotlight of which Ali was so fond. One of his daughters, however, Laila Ali , pursued a career as a professional boxer during which she went undefeated in 24 bouts between and while capturing a number of titles in various weight classes.
The outpouring of goodwill that accompanied his appearance confirmed his status as one of the most-beloved athletes in the world. The dramatic period of his life from to was the subject of the film Ali , in which Will Smith starred as Ali. His life story is told in the documentary film I Am Ali , which includes audio recordings that he made throughout his career and interviews with his intimates.
Ali was a member of the inaugural class of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in , and in he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Print Cite. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites.
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