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Philippine Bishops Sound Alarm on Online Gambling Crisis: “A New Virus Destroying Our People” - Catholic Canada

Summary by ZENIT - English
(ZENIT News / Manila, 07.13.2025).- The Philippine Church confronts a society increasingly shaped by digital technology and its bishops have issued one of their most forceful pastoral statements in recent memory—this time not about war or poverty, but about a new and surreptitious threat: online gambling. Describing it as a “new plague” sweeping through the nation, Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of t…
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