Please join in prayer for Sonia, a terminally-ill 50-year old provincial lawyer who underwent mastectomy and uterine myoma surgery in January 2009 due to Stage IV breast and bone cancer. Doctors determined she has 2 more years to live, so she continues to practice law to earn a living. Last month, she filed an incompetence administrative case against Judge Bandal, and the judge retaliated by issuing an arrest warrant for contempt of court. Thus she got hospital-detained and is prevented from traveling to Manila City to avail of urgent post-surgery chemotherapy and radiation therapy where it is available. As a result of these oppressive circumstances, she may suffer painful and early death in the course of fighting injustice and for the sake of principle. Let us help ask, in Jesus' name, to move Sonia to prayerful humility, to move the judge's heart to compassionate justice, and for God's mercy to break the bonds of oppression and persecution in her life. Amen.