Rodrigo Duterte
Manny Pacquiao sues popular Filipino pastor in libel case
By Joseph Hammond — September 15, 2021
(RNS) — The Filipino boxer and politician is fending off accusations that he profited from a sports center project.
Israel should have barred Duterte
By Jeffrey Salkin — September 2, 2018
Duterte arrives in Israel today. Hold my head while I gag.
Duterte vows to resign if anybody can prove God exists
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 7, 2018
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president, who recently sparked outrage for calling God stupid, has courted new controversy in his largely Roman Catholic country by saying he will resign if anybody can prove that God exists.
Trump flunks the Holocaust. Duterte proves it.
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 2, 2017
Trump's overture to Duterte is a moral obscenity.
Philippine Catholic Church to slam ‘reign of terror’ behind war on drugs
By Reuters — February 4, 2017
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' Catholic Church will assail President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs for creating a "reign of terror" among the poor, in sermons to be read at services across the country this weekend.
Once-powerful Philippines church divided, subdued over drug killings
By guest — October 10, 2016
Priests are unsure how to take a stand against the thousands of killings in a war that has such overwhelming popular support.
Philippines’ president-elect takes on Catholic Church over contraception
By Yonat Shimron — June 27, 2016
(RNS) The Filipino president elect paid men to undergo vasectomies while mayor of Davao.
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