{"id":31571,"date":"2017-10-14T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T03:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/home\/?p=31571"},"modified":"2017-10-14T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T03:16:59","slug":"killings-not-church-to-blame-for-duterte-rating-dip-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/2017\/10\/14\/killings-not-church-to-blame-for-duterte-rating-dip-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Killings, not Church, to blame for Duterte rating dip\u2014Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”on” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” src=”http:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cbcp_bpdavid.jpg” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Image Caption” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Arial||||” text_font_size=”12″ text_line_height=”1.3em” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”||30px|”]\n

Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan. CBCPNews<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n

A top ally of President Rodrigo Duterte in Congress is barking up the wrong tree in blaming the Church after the chief executive saw his lowest ratings since he came to power, a Catholic bishop said.<\/p>\n

Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan said there\u2019s no one to blame but the government itself for its bloody drug war that killed thousands of Filipinos.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all, most of the casualties in the drug war are coming from the urban poor communities that voted for this government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the spate of killings may have affected Duterte\u2019s ratings, an indication that many people do not agree \u201cwith the way it is being fought\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez earlier outrightly blamed the Church for the drop in Duterte\u2019s trust and satisfaction ratings.<\/p>\n

He criticized the bishops for always \u201csquawking\u201d against the government, and urged them to stop making \u201cnoise\u201d by focusing instead in cleaning their ranks first from supposed pedophiles priests and other scandals.<\/p>\n

David, however, said that \u201cit does not help at all that the government keeps denying that it\u2019s (extrajudicial killings) happening\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obvious that the public is aware of them,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cThe fall of the ratings is not due to us Church leaders but to the extrajudicial killings themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bishop David said the government must \u201cstop the killings\u201d if only to improve its ratings and focus on the rehabilitation of people with substance disorder.<\/p>\n

He urged the government to \u201crefocus\u201d its fights against illegal drugs to the big-time drug lords, suppliers, manufacturers and its protectors in the government.<\/p>\n

The prelate reiterated that the government should also start addressing addiction as a health and poverty issue if only to restore its popularity rating. Roy Lagarde\/<\/strong>CBCPNews<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_post_nav admin_label=”Post Navigation” in_same_term=”off” hide_prev=”off” hide_next=”off” prev_text=”PREVIOUS ARTICLE” next_text=”NEXT ARTICLE” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bishop David said the government must \u201cstop the killings\u201d if only to improve its ratings and focus on the rehabilitation of people with substance disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cbcp-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ootw-8dd","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aranzazushrine.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cbcp_bpdavid.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31574,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31571\/revisions\/31574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aranzazushrine.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}