Tue Aug 3, 2021 – 9:05 pm EDT
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TOKYO (LifeSiteNews) — After winning Olympic gold, Fiji’s men’s rugby team raised their powerful voices to God and sang:
We have overcome
We have overcome
By the Blood of the Lamb
In the Word of the Lord
We have overcome
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While it is unknown whether all of the players on the team are Christian, their voices united in song in praise of the Lamb of God presented an inspiring, “spine-tingling” image to the world.
The song that filled the Tokyo stadium is a traditional hymn, E Da Sa Qaqa.
“We always start with our prayers and songs,” explained team captain Jerry Tuwai, “and we always end with our prayers and songs, and that song says that our God is a loving God, and that while we always tend to go stray from what he expects from us, he still loves us, and gives us good things.”
In preparation for the Olympics, the men had spent five arduous months away from their families,
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