{"id":161704,"date":"2018-04-26T03:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T07:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161704"},"modified":"2018-04-26T03:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T07:51:50","slug":"australian-nun-saddened-over-govts-order-to-leave-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/26\/australian-nun-saddened-over-govts-order-to-leave-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian nun saddened over gov&#8217;t&#8217;s order to leave\u00a0PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian nun Sister Patricia Fox was surprised and saddened upon hearing that the Bureau of Immigration (BI) has revoked her missionary visa and ordered her to leave the Philippines\u00a0within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Fox, in a statement, said that her charitable activities seemed to have &#8220;brought me into conflict with the Philippine government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BI revoked Fox&#8217;s visa\u00a0due to her alleged participation in partisan politics, a violation of the terms and conditions of her visa.<\/p>\n<p>The missionary who had been in the Philippines since 1990, helping farmers and workers, said she &#8220;couldn\u2019t help but to get involved\u201d in projects that \u201cuplift the livelihood of the farmers\u201d and \u201cadvocate with them for their rights to land, livelihood, peace, justice and security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said that these issues are \u201call universal human rights which the church sees as integral to her mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wishing not to leave the Philippines, Fox said, \u201cI am still hoping for a chance to explain how I see my mission as a religious sister and maybe the decision can be reconsidered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She adds, \u201cI may lose my right to be in the Philippines but I can never lose the learnings and beautiful memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 04\/ 26 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian nun Sister Patricia Fox was surprised and saddened upon hearing that the Bureau of Immigration (BI) has revoked her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161704","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=161704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}