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Prayers Across Borders: A Story from Rome


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When COVID-19 hit Italy in early 2020, many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) found themselves locked down, isolated, and afraid. With limited movement, lost jobs, and growing distance from their families back home, a small group decided to gather online for something simple: daily prayer. What began as a morning rosary on Google Meet quietly grew into a full community, one that offered spiritual strength, emotional support, and even material help to its members.

In this episode, Jaemark Tordecilla travels to Rome and joins a local mass with members of the Family of Davar, a prayer group formed at the height of the pandemic. He meets Brother John and Brother Aphol, two OFWs whose stories reveal how faith, music, and digital connection helped them survive some of their darkest days. Despite long work hours, uncertain futures, and physical distance, they found in each other a kind of second family.

This is a story about prayer beyond the church walls, worship across borders, and the power of community built not just on faith, but on shared struggle. From an old basilica in Trastevere to countless quiet kitchens and jobsites across Europe, the gospel lives on: in WiFi, in song, and in the spaces we make for each other.



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