FILIPPINE Bishop Investigated for Opposition to a Mine in the Luzon Region

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At the center of the dispute a plan of a local society on almost 4500 hectares of the ancestral territory of the indigenous people Bugkalot/Ilongot. The bishop of Bayombong, Mgr. Elmer Mangalinao celebrated Mass at a barricade raised by the local committees that oppose the project. The prelate: "To take care of the land means to take care of the poor" .