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  • Cook Island Christians pray for Sunday flights reprieve

    12/27/2009 2:46:09 PM PST · by smokingfrog · 3 replies · 345+ views
    BBC News ^ | 12-27-09 | John Pickford
    "The sanctity of the Sabbath is of a higher value than the dollar," declared the protesters' banner. It was a wet Sunday in Aitutaki and I was looking at a bedraggled band of demonstrators outside the tiny airport. When the local airline decided to add a Sunday service to its normal schedule it may have anticipated some hostility. Most Polynesians have been devout Christians since the arrival of missionaries in the early 19th Century and on many islands Sunday is a special day. But on Aitutaki, as well as the airport protests, 1,300 people signed a petition against the flight....