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By Simone Orendain, OSV Newsof Kalookan, Philippines, one of the 21 cardinal-designates to be elevated at the Dec. 7 consistory at the Vatican, was thrust into the spotlight and singled out by his country's president in 2018 at the height of a bloody government anti-drug war there., the capital, told OSV News in an email interview Oct. 21,"We were just among the people whom the previous government tried to intimidate for daring to question such inhumane government policies.
Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that he kept a"death squad" to crack down on crime while mayor of one of the country's largest cities, BBC News reported Oct. 29. The prelate's voice became most strident in August 2017, when three police officers shot 17-year-old Kian Delos Santos dead in Caloocan City, bordering northern Manila. The officers said he engaged them in a gun battle, but evidence showed he was unarmed and shot from behind while on his knees. Security cameras captured him being dragged off at night to a dark, filthy alleyway by a river where witnesses heard multiple bullets fired.
Father Villanueva, 53, told OSV News that he knew of the bishop who had learned about his program. The priest offered to take some of Bishop David's charges into the shelter program, which became tailored to serve drug war victims' families. Bishop David, 65, said in the email to OSV News that being named cardinal would be formalized in a ceremony in which designates would"be made to wear" the color red as part of their standard garb; among them the red skull cap, red sash, red cord around the neck.
The president of the Catholic bishops' conference of the Philippines since 2021 and incoming vice president of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences said his diocese was already being looked at as a model for the rest of the Philippine dioceses for its planned"mission stations" that will reach out to those in the margins of society as well as the church, and bring the church to the people, which he said is"the work of the Holy Spirit that needs to be sustained.
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