From Jehovah’s Witnesses to Iglesia ni Cristo, religion is cited at least four times in the Senate investigation
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Well, what’s to expect from Asia’s biggest Christian-majority country — and also one of the world’s most religious nations,in 2017, appeared during the Senate hearing. Facing accusations that he was a drug pusher, Kian’s uncle Randy delos Santos cited his activities in the Christian group Jehovah’s Witnesses.
He then turned to Senator Robin Padilla, a former Jehovah’s Witness before converting to Islam. “Perhaps Senator Robinhood Padilla can give his views on the character of members of Jehovah’s Witnesses,” he said, after which he directly addressed the actor-turned-senator. “Brother, we were together before. I was with your mother.”Delos Santos said the “malicious” accusation against him, at that time, cost him even his job.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses is a Christian group that developed in the United States in the 19th century.
Villanueva belongs to Society of the Divine Word or SVD, a Catholic religious order of missionary priests, founded by Saint Arnold Janssen in the Netherlands in 1875. Numbering aroundThe SVD priest has received local and international recognition for his human rights work.
The other religion that Duterte mentioned — Aglipay — is a Christian church proclaimed in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, in 1902, breaking away from Roman Catholicism due to abuses by Spanish friars.
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