Before the Virgin of Fatima and on the day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, María Claudia Tarazona, wife of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, asked everyone to join in prayer for her husband, who suffered a serious attack on June 7 and will be subjected to a new intervention this Friday, June 27 at 1:00 pm (Colombia time).
After thanking everyone for his solidarity and prayers, Uribe Turbay’s wife said that “today Miguel enters a new procedure. In our words a new miracle. I feel the need to communicate this step because you have become, each of you, in my strength and my support.”
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#Bogotá | This Friday, after María Claudia Tarazona, wife of the presidential candidate and Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, announced a new medical intervention, Citizens began to approach the Santa Fe Foundation, in Bogotá, to raise prayers for her life. pic.twitter.com/tfVFsThnNA
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“Miguel needs them with his prayers, faith, love and good energy to get closer to the miracle of his recovery. Appealing to the love that each of you has expressed, I beg you to join us in deep prayer,” said María Claudia Tarazona in an Instagram post, in which she appears accompanied by her son in front of the Virgin of Fatima.
“Today I put in my prayers all the people who are traveling moments of pain, especially to all our fellow UCI and their families. We hugged ourselves in the same pain, but also in the same strength and faith. Let’s join the 1 PM, at which time Miguel will be intervened,” said Miguel Uribe’s wife Turbay.
The last medical part, released on June 24 by the Santa Fe Foundation in Bogotá, the clinic where he is hospitalized, points out that Miguel Uribe Turbay, who was shot in the head on June 7, It was “serious and its neurological forecast (era) reserved”.
The Foundation, in charge of Uribe Turbay’s family to inform about their health status, said that the following communications “will be issued at the time there are relevant clinical changes.”
Since the attack against Miguel Uribe Turbay, which has shocked Colombia, a large number of people has joined in prayer, asking for the miracle of its recovery. In addition, a priest near the family brought a relic of San Charbel to pray for him.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.