Bishops call for 3-day fasting after Duterte says God ‘stupid’
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) called on Monday for fasting and prayers after President Rodrigo Duterte made a remark about a “stupid God” and questioned God’s existence in profane remarks that set the leader on a collision course with Asia’s largest Catholic Church.
Archbishop Romulo Valles, CBCP president, called for a day of prayers to invoke “God’s mercy and justice on those who have blasphemed God’s holy name, those who slander and bear false witness and those who commit murder or justify murder as a means for fighting criminality.”
Valles asked Filipino Catholics to join bishops in three more days of fasting, prayer and almsgiving starting on July 17.
Duterte has had a thorny relationship with Catholic bishops, who have been critical of his bloody anti-drug crackdown and vulgar language. /atm
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