Russian Orthodox missionaries - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 07 Oct 2019 02:46:16 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Russian Orthodox missionaries - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Duterte to invite Russian Orthodox missionaries to Philippines https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/10/07/duterte-russian-orthodox-missionaries-philippines/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:55:02 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=121844 President Rodrigo Duterte said he plans to invite Russian Orthodox missionaries to the Philippines as he hit the Catholic Church anew for supposedly "attacking" him. "I'm planning to invite the Russian Orthodox missionaries to come to the Philippines so that we can look for a place where we can build the Orthodox Church," Duterte said Read more

Duterte to invite Russian Orthodox missionaries to Philippines... Read more]]> President Rodrigo Duterte said he plans to invite Russian Orthodox missionaries to the Philippines as he hit the Catholic Church anew for supposedly "attacking" him.

"I'm planning to invite the Russian Orthodox missionaries to come to the Philippines so that we can look for a place where we can build the Orthodox Church," Duterte said during the question and answer portion of the Valdai Forum in Sochi city on Thursday.

"It was built many years ago by the Russians, 1922. This was destroyed, It's an old dilapidated…," he added.

Before this, Duterte lamented how bishops have criticized his administration's brutal war against illegal drugs. Read more

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