An interesting Facebook Message

April 17, 2009 | Posted by dmihalia

Many people are fans of the social networking site Facebook.com. I visit everyday to see how my friends are doing and this morning I got invited to a group concerning a Filipino. At first I didn’t know what to think but I did some research and feel this is a legitimate story. Instead of explaining let me give you what I got in Facebook.

Help save a life, help Dondon Lanuza !

“For every member who join this group, I will donate 2 pesos to support the cause for the release of Dondon from Deathrow in Saudi Arabia.

Dondon is a fellow Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who was sentenced to die by beheading for crime of murder which happened more than 8 years ago. Details of his case may be provided to you upon request or you may directly contact Dondon at donlanuza@gmail.com

Joining this group will not cost you a single centavo but may mean everything for dondon and many other fellow filipinos now languishing in jail and awaiting execution.”

Now I am not judging this man. He could be guilty or not guilty and I believe he was tried and found guilty but in many countries a fair trial is not the norm. But I have been taught in church to be compassionate towards all people and if this can help a man or his children then I will join the group, in fact I have joined the group. I just thought that since this is a Filipino you all would be interested in it. If you are a member of Facebook then you may want to look at the group. Also if you want to be my friend on Facebook contact me by email at admin@movingtophilippines.com to go to my profile. For more on the story of Dondon Lanuza click here.

Another story involving Filipinos that has interested me concerns an earlier post on the hostages of the Somali Pirates. It seems the count of Filipinos that are hostages of these pirates is up to 120. I’m hoping these innocent people who have did nothing to the pirates will be released to go to their families soon. For more on that story you can click here.

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