‘If the poor don’t come to Church, the Church must go to the poor,’ says Kalookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David at the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality
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Kalookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines , explained the issue of local migration in a press conference on Saturday, October 5, during the Synod on Synodality at the Vatican.David began with the premise that “the influx of people from the provinces to the metropolitan centers is presently changing the demographics in many of our dioceses in the Philippines.
He explained that some city residents “would even regard the influx of the settlers from the provinces as a kind of threat.” He said these city dwellers, in particular, “think that the slum communities that are created by the local migration are becoming a breeding place for criminality and drug abuse.”
This, he said, “paved the way for the creation of 20 mission stations” in his own territory, the Diocese of Kalookan.
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