More foreigners seek healing in Manaoag

By Liezle Basa Inigo

MANAOAG, Pangasinan — Around l00 tourists from 20 countries are set to join religious pilgrims for a week of spiritual renewal at the Pyramid of Asia, here, in the coming Holy Week, world-renowned healer Rev. Alex Orbito said yesterday.

Orbito, president of the Philippine Healers Circle, Inc., said the foreign pilgrims will come from Russia, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Canada, the United States, Germany, Sweden and Holland, among others.

They will attend a seminar and visit the mountain for meditation, he said.

“Holy Week is the best time to reform our materialistic ways by emulating Jesus Christ who lived simply with the poor,” said Orbito.

The well-followed spiritual leader warned that materialism will only take us away from the Lord and from our families.

In the past several years, more and more foreign tourists have been coming to the Philippines to seek spiritual healing and the Pyramid of Asia resort has become a favorite destination for them.

Located l5 minutes away from the Manaoag Shrine, the Pyramid of Asia, which the Orbito family built in early ’90s, was inspired by the healer’s visits to the ancient pyramids of Egypt.

He believes the pyramids have “rich healing energy.”

Worthy to note is another healer in Mangaldan, Pangasinan, by the name of Eddie Quinto.

Many patients, including those who were terminal cases, professed that Quinto had healed them of their sicknesses without the use of medicines.

The influx of visitors and patients at his clinic usually doubles during the Holy Week, he said.

Observers said that since many of the sick seek a miracle in visiting the Manaoag Shrine to pray, many of them also tend to visit healers in this province.

Many of the patients who claim to have been restored to normal experienced Quinto’s “gentle massage” that combines the principles of chiropractic and reflexology.

Quinto, whose services are only by appointment, said he is gifted with “an aligning touch that restores disaligned nerves.”