{"id":34500,"date":"2019-10-16T09:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=34500"},"modified":"2019-10-16T09:02:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T09:02:52","slug":"philippines-government-to-introduce-study-of-the-bible-and-catholic-faith-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/10\/16\/philippines-government-to-introduce-study-of-the-bible-and-catholic-faith-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines: Government to Introduce Study of the Bible and Catholic Faith in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Filipino bishops have welcomed the government&#8217;s move to introduce the study of the Catholic faith and the reading of the Bible in public, primary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is a good proposal. We hope it will be approved&#8221;, said Archbishop Arturo Bastes, Bishop of Sorsogon, former president of the Bishops\u2019 Commission for the Biblical Apostolate, to Agenzia Fides.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fr. Conegundo Garganta, Executive Secretary of the Bishops\u2019 Commission for Youth, in the Bishops&#8217; Conference of the Philippines, defined the measure &#8220;relevant&#8221;, arguing that &#8220;it will help the Churches in the task of spreading the Word of God&#8221;. Furthermore, the measure &#8211; he said &#8211; will help to celebrate the &#8220;National Month of the Bible&#8221;, which the nation celebrates in January each year, according to a proclamation issued by President Rodrigo Duterte in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The parliamentary Bienvenido Abante Jr. presented the &#8220;Bill 2069&#8221;, a bill that introduces the Catholic religion and biblical literacy as part of the curriculum of public schools run by the government. &#8220;If Christian principles were taught to our children, there would not be many problems of leadership, governance, peace and order&#8221;, argued Abante.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The best way to shape and strengthen the moral, spiritual, ethical, intellectual and social character of youth and personal discipline &#8211; he added &#8211; is to act at school, in the years of primary and secondary school education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8220;While we are defined as the only Christian nation in Asia, it seems that we have not really appreciated the importance of a book, the Bible, which is a literary masterpiece, the best-selling book in the world, the only one that offers a lasting solution to the challenges of man and society&#8221;, <\/strong>said Abante.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the bill, subjects such as English and Filipino, in public schools, will include reading and discussion on texts taken from the Bible. 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