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The Diocese of Borongan and the communities of Samar Island provinces in the Eastern Visayas region have launched a “Jericho prayer assembly” amid the ongoing mining activities in the area.
Bishop Crispin Varquez of the Diocese of Borongan quotes the second encyclical of Pope Francis, 'Laudato Si': 'The ecological crisis is also a summons to profound interior conversion.'