{"id":128925,"date":"2017-11-07T00:09:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128925"},"modified":"2025-01-08T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:24:11","slug":"duterte-considers-complete-conciliation-with-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/07\/duterte-considers-complete-conciliation-with-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte considers \u2018complete conciliation\u2019 with Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128935\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PH1-celi-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128935\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PH1-celi-2.jpg\" alt=\"President Rodrigo Roa Duterte meets with Former Foreign Minister and Liberal Democratic Party Policy Research Council Chair Fumio Kishida who paid a courtesy call on the President at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on October 31, 2017. SIMEON CELI JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PH1-celi-2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PH1-celi-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PH1-celi-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/PH1-celi-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rodrigo Roa Duterte meets with Former Foreign Minister and Liberal Democratic Party Policy Research Council Chair Fumio Kishida who paid a courtesy call on the President at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on October 31, 2017. (<a href=\"https:\/\/pcoo.gov.ph\/photos\/?post_id=56312\">SIMEON CELI JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amid the protests of the Catholic Church against the alleged extra-judicial killings (EJK) under the current administration, President Rodrigo Duterte is striving for a \u201ccomplete conciliation\u201d with the church.<\/p>\n<p>President Spokesperson Harry Roque said on Monday during a press briefing that the President is exerting all his efforts to achieve unity between the church and the government despite the political distance in the relationship between of the two due to the Separation of Church and State.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy addyi online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/addyi.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/addyi.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there should be a conflict and from now on, I think what I have been reading from the President himself is that he\u2019s exerting all efforts to have complete conciliation with the Church and all religious group,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPareho naman po tayo nagnanais na itaguyod \u2018yung moralidad at pareho naman tayo nagnanais po na itaguyod din \u2018yung mga karapatan ng ating mga kababayan dahil lahat po tayo ay hinirang ng Panginoon sa kanyang<\/em> imahe [We (government and the Church) both want to uphold morality and we both want to uphold the rights of our countrymen because we are all chosen by God according to his image],\u201d Roque added.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said that there should be an agreement between the two sectors since they are both serving the interest of the countrymen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut because we\u2019re both serving the interest of our countrymen, <em>so naniniwala po ako na mas mabuti na magkaroon nang pagkakasunduan sa parte ng simbahan at ng ating gobyerno \u2018no<\/em> [I believed that it better to have an agreement on the part of the Church and the government],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque assured the public that Duterte administration would never tolerate EJK under his tightened campaign against illegal drugs in the country.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clomiphene online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/clomiphene.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/clomiphene.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President condones unnecessary and illegal killings. The President has said it over and over again, he will stand by his men if the killings are as a result of a legal engagement, and he will throw them behind bars if the killings are illegal,&#8221;\u00a0Roque stressed.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed that freedom of expression is accorded to everyone including the Church, adding that the Church is \u201cvery important in this nation as forming part of our culture and our sense of identity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy arimidex online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/arimidex.html\">https:\/\/www.archbrows.com\/upload\/Specials\/jpg\/arimidex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, \u00a0Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) organized a &#8216;Lord Heal Our Land&#8217; mass at the EDSA Shrine in Quezon City for the victims of alleged EJKs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the protests of the Catholic Church against the alleged extra-judicial killings (EJK) under the current administration, President Rodrigo Duterte &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,483],"tags":[12253,2526,31538,13135,31449],"class_list":["post-128925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-politics","tag-war-on-drugs","tag-catholic-church","tag-duterte-considers-complete-conciliation-with-church","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","tag-presidential-spokesperson-harry-roque","mauthors-michealina-vallarta-david","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281158,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128925\/revisions\/281158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}