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| Internationally Famous Singer Invited to Encore Chaldean Concert Performance |
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Michigan, USA – “The man is an inspiration to the whole world. The Pope climbed down the stage to kiss him,” says Gabby Kajy. “I didn’t know much about him until I saw him at the ECRC festival at St. Thomas. I bought all his CD’s which he signed with his feet. He was incredible and I have been a fan ever since.”
Kajy is talking about the famous Tony Melendez. It was on September 15, 1987, he played his guitar for Pope John Paul II in Los Angeles. Born without arms, he performed a touching song entitled Never Be The Same. When the Pope approached him from the stage to kiss him in appreciation, it seemed to reflect the sentiments of the entire country.
Never Be the Same was an appropriate song Melendez sang for the Holy Father, for those few moments changed Tony Melendez' life and brought his unrestrained abilities as a guitarist into national attention. It seems to be a fitting place for a man who has spent his life putting personal confidence above his handicap. The international marvel has been featured on Life On A Rock, The 700 Club, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Home Life Television, and Entertainment Tonight to name just a few of his countless television appearances.
Melendez is being called back to an encore presentation for the ECRC festival to be held at St. Joseph Chaldean Church campus in Troy this Friday, September 26. The concert is open to the public and tickets are being subsidized to the bargain of only $10 for a two-day concert pass.
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| Filed in: Sports, Art, and Entertainment, ECRC, Chaldean Churches By Sam Yousif |
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| 2009 ECRC Awake My Soul Spiritual Concert |
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| Chaldeans Bring Attention to March of Life 2008 |
Rena Oram considers herself a modern day abolitionist. “The stain on world history to enslave other humans is deplorable. It took abolitionist to convince the world that every human life has value. Today, we are called ‘aborlitionists.’ We are modern day abolitionists that work to convince the world that babies in the womb also have the right of life and freedom.”
Oram helped organize a student group that traveled to Washing D.C. for the annual March for Life. The Chaldean activist was joined by hundreds of thousands of other young adults from across the country.
The Annual March for Life draws attention to the millions killed due to the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision to legalize abortion in the case of Roe v. Wade. Although nearly half a million gathered to protest the effects of the Court’s decision on the rights of the unborn, the march receive little coverage in mainstream media.
“The media won’t cover our march because they foolishly believe this is a privacy or woman’s choice issue. It is not. A baby is a natural consequence to a choice that has already been made. It drives me crazy that people just won’t accept personal responsibility for their behavior,” says Oram.
Michigan has been a hot-bed in the ongoing struggle to end infanticide. Recently Students for Life of America secretly captured a speech by abortion provider Dr. Alberto Hodari on Wayne State University’s campus where the doctor claims doctors of have a license to lie to a patient to perform the necessary procedures.
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| Filed in: Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Government & Society, Chaldean Justice League, ECRC By Huda Metti |
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