Australian nun ordered to leave Philippines has no regrets
26/4/2018 18:21
An Australian nun whose missionary visa in the Philippines was revoked after the president complained about her joining opposition rallies said that social advocacy and human rights are part of church teachings. The Immigration Bureau gave Sister Patricia Fox 30 days to leave the Philippines after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered an investigation into the 71-year-old as an "undesirable" foreigner over what it called her partisan political activities. Fox is a coordinator of an order of Roman Catholic nuns called Notre Dame de Sion and has been working with the Filipino poor for almost 30 years. She has joined rallies critical of Duterte and his government, which has been criticized at home and abroad for waging a brutal war on illegal drugs that left thousands of mostly urban poor suspects dead and for stifling dissent.
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