As millions of Filipinos gather to celebrate Christmas this week—decorating streets with festive star-shaped lanterns called parols and traditional crèches called belens—they will also recall lost loved ones and the devastation wrought last year by Typhoon Haiyan. They may likewise note the outpouring of aid that arrived to help after the storm. For many who contributed, this was an act of humanitarian mercy. For me, it was also about repaying a decades-old debt to this Catholic-majority country. Read this moving The Wall Street Journal op-ed from our Danny Pins, who helped coordinate JDCs Haiyan crisis response and whose mother and grandparents were among the more than 1,300 European Jews offered safe haven from the Nazis by Philippine President Manuel Quezon in the late 1930s.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:00:01 +0000
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