{"id":33613,"date":"2019-03-12T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=33613"},"modified":"2019-03-12T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:33:07","slug":"philippines-priests-are-being-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/03\/12\/philippines-priests-are-being-threatened\/","title":{"rendered":"PHILIPPINES: PRIESTS ARE BEING THREATENED"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishops and priests in the Phillipines have revealed that they have been receiving death-threatening messages largely because they speak out against the extrajudicial killings in the Country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a press conference at a seminary in Quezon City, Fathers Flavie Villanueva, Albert Alejo, and Robert Reyes said that they have been sent messages threatening to kill them. The priests also presented some excerpts from the death threats that they, Archbishop Socrates Villegas and Bishop Pablo Virgilio David had received. Villanueva, who runs a center for those who were widowed and orphaned by the government\u2019s bloody war on drugs, said that some people maybe felt \u201cthreatened\u201d by his cause.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf helping them (drug war orphans, widows) seems to be a threat to others because it empowers and allows them to speak the truth, then maybe someone wants me to stop what I\u2019m doing,\u201d he said. A former drug user himself, Flavio launched a program in 2016 to help families of victims of killings in the drug war. Called \u201cPaghilom\u201d (healing), it is one of several church-based initiatives to bring hope to those in the \u201cperipheries\u201d of the Church and society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhy am I so passionate about this? I want to prove that there\u2019s hope for them (drug uses) and they should not be killed,\u201d he said. Alejo admitted that they are already concerned about their safety. \u201cWe came out not only because the threats may come true but also because of the possibility that allegations may be brought out after we are killed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three Catholic priests have been killed since December 2017, raising alarm among Church officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still, Reyes said such threats will not prevent them from doing their mission to protect the people especially the oppressed. \u201cWe will continue to do this as servants of God and the people with a mission to protect the rights and welfare of our neighbors,\u201d Reyes said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila has earlier disclosed to Duterte that David and some priests have been getting death threats. 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