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• Secular, Politics & Churches (Mindanao)

  Appointing the Iglesia Ni Cristo head as special envoy – Philippines, Duterte, and church-state separation

  18 February 2018, by DAVID Randy

  The recent appointment by President Duterte of the leader of Iglesia Ni Cristo, executive minister Eduardo V. Manalo, to a government position presents an interesting case that may test once again the meaning of church-state separation, a principle enshrined in all Filipino constitutions. Apart (…)

• Secular, Politics & Churches (Mindanao)

  Philippines: The costs to the Church

  9 July 2011, by DAVID Randy

  Although the Church draws its mandate from God, it remains very much a human institution. Its leaders are human beings like the rest of us, subject to the same desires and temptations that besiege ordinary mortals. Its structures likewise mirror the characteristics of the society in which it (…)