<DIV><A target=_blank name=67777><FONT color=#000040><B>Don't Give Up, Mel Gibson Tells Schiavo's Parents</B></FONT></A><BR><BR><BR>CLEARWATER, Florida, MARCH 14, 2005 (<A href="http://www.zenit.org/" target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>Zenit.org</FONT></A>).- Actor-director Mel Gibson, in a telephone conversation with Terri Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, encouraged the Schindler family to "never give up and continue to pray."<BR><BR>Shortly after the telephone conversation Friday, Gibson sent a fax to the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation with a statement to be read at a rally for the brain-damaged woman whose husband is battling to take her off life-support.<BR><BR>According to the Christian Communication Network, Gibson's statement said: "I fully support the efforts of Mr. & Mrs. Schindler to save their daughter, Terri Schiavo, from a cruel starvation. Terri's husband should sign the care of his wife over to her parents so she can be properly cared for."<BR><BR>Bob Schindler,
Terri Schiavo's father, said: "We are very grateful that Mr. Gibson has come forward and issued such an encouraging statement on such a delicate matter. ... He said we should never give up and continue to pray, to hammer God with prayers and hammer him hard." <BR>ZE05031425</DIV><BR><BR><DIV>
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