"...remember the Pope asking the world to pray for Apollo 13 who were disproving what the Church was still saying about the sun going round the earth...

You ARE kidding, right? Is joke, no? "

I'm not making this up you know... I was alive then! - every world religious leader of all faiths asked their followers to pray - the second time the whole world, and that even includes the most amazingly remote parts who only had 1 TV or perhaps just a radio for the whole village, had their minds on a single peaceful thing together.

The first was when the first moon landing took place in 1969.... Australia almost shut down too...