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Please pray for the Philippines For the very few who may not have heard the Philippines(an island nation consisting of over 7000 islands) was recently ravaged by the Haiyan Typhoon. Haiyan has become unofficially the strongest recorded tropical cyclone to make landfall, with wind speeds up to 195 mph. The typhoon devastated Samar Island and Leyte. It is estimated that at least 10,000 people may have died in the city of Tacloban alone. About 11 million people have been affected. Countless are missing or dying Many have been left homeless. Only days after the typhoon, a 4.8 earthquake struck the island of Bohol. The provinces of Aklan,

The Philippines is an island nation in Southeast Asia. Its closest neighbors are Taiwan in the north, Vietnam in the west, Borneo in the southwest and Indonesia in the south. The Philippines are made up of 7,107 islands. 1,000 of the islands are inhabited. The largest islands are Luzon in the north and Mindanao in the south. Manila is the capital. The estimated population is about 94 million. FACTS The Philippines are the world's 2nd largest chain of islands. The Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country. The Philippines is the only nation in Asia where the majority of the populaton profess the Christian faith. The Philipp