Duterte warns Catholic voters: “Don't vote for me or you will go to hell”

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines- Presidential candidate and tough-talking Mayor Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte has once again made a controversial statement following the Catholic Bishop’s Conference (CBCP) disapproval of his candidacy.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsGHiYT5GNCXvY6RwyCFgllsFENmI_2QeM0ZaLpibWScPXQVf3DFGJFxRhcsu8Ai2_hzHbB4TQb2vtShnhElL115M0u0DodS4eJxK1xkBb1tuS-aA3XYo9pm4I4vWVJTSiVN-1Aq5eB9xY/s1600/duterte-catholic-voters-dont-vote-or-go-to-hell.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Duterte warns Catholic voters: “Don't vote for me or you will go to hell”" border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsGHiYT5GNCXvY6RwyCFgllsFENmI_2QeM0ZaLpibWScPXQVf3DFGJFxRhcsu8Ai2_hzHbB4TQb2vtShnhElL115M0u0DodS4eJxK1xkBb1tuS-aA3XYo9pm4I4vWVJTSiVN-1Aq5eB9xY/s640/duterte-catholic-voters-dont-vote-or-go-to-hell.jpg" title="Duterte warns Catholic voters: “Don't vote for me or you will go to hell”" width="560" /></a></div><br />On Tuesday, April 18, Duterte warned Catholic voters during an election forum at the University of the Philippines Iloilo City campus. <br /><br />“To all Roman Catholics, listen to your bishop. Don't vote for me or you will go to hell,”Duterte told the audience.<br /><br /><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><div dir="ltr" lang="en">Duterte: To all Roman Catholics, listen to your bishop. Dont vote for me or you will go to hell. <a href="https://twitter.com/gmanewsbreaking" rel="nofollow">@gmanewsbreaking</a> <a href="https://t.co/S3kb7lDft4" rel="nofollow">pic.twitter.com/S3kb7lDft4</a></div>— Cedric Castillo (@cedric_castillo) <a href="https://twitter.com/cedric_castillo/status/722363341235093504" rel="nofollow">April 19, 2016</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="“utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></center><br />Duterte made the remark a day after Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines president Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas posted on his Facebook account a video of the presidential aspirant making a comment about the rape of Jaqueline Hamil, a 36-year-old Australian missionary who was gang raped and killed in a bloody hostage-taking in a Davao prison in 1989. <br /><br />In the caption, Villegas wrote: "Judge for yourself if this is the right choice. I will keep my personal judgment to myself. This video can help…."<br /><br />Earlier, Villegas denounced the candidacy of Duterte and pointed out that the presidential aspirant’s platform to eliminate criminality by killing criminals is against the teachings of the Bible. <br /><br /><i>“Kahit ano pa ang motibo, ang pagpatay ay isang krimen at isang kasalanan, kriminal o awtoridad man, ang gumawa nito,”</i> Archbishop Socrates Villegas warned Catholic Filipinos. <br /><br />(Whatever their motive is, killing is a crime and a sin, whether a criminal or an authority commits it.)<br /><br />Villegas also reminded Catholics that Duterte’s outright admission of his womanizing is a sin.<br /><br />The Davao City mayor came under fire after a video of him allegedly making fun of the rape and killling of Hamil made rounds online. Despite earning criticisms for his rape remark, Duterte insisted that his statement was made in “utter anger” over the murder of Hamil and other hostages.<br /><br /><b>--Mini, The Summit Express</b></div>

Duterte warns Catholic voters: “Don't vote for me or you will go to hell”

MANILA, Philippines- Presidential candidate and tough-talking Mayor Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte has once again made a controversial statement fol...

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Duterte, Poe statistically tied at top spot in new Pulse Asia survey

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines- Consistent frontrunner Senator Grace Poe now shares the top spot with Davao City Mayor Rodrigo “Rody” Duterte in the latest Pulse Asia survey.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwsKbIF9BBZo75RATHP_FqVmFbWoyteHCC8U-d_Mjh3CmKusLU5leDpMFho6hSgE9v4i8Jz3F_ohGTM4wu58VKgLIzFIdtXgSK6EZLrWwa5-bvzvkpL5Jr5avMuaGqpgVgs77WkV3ZkvK/s1600/duterte-poe.png" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Grace Poe are statistically tied at the top spot in latest Pulse Asia poll" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwsKbIF9BBZo75RATHP_FqVmFbWoyteHCC8U-d_Mjh3CmKusLU5leDpMFho6hSgE9v4i8Jz3F_ohGTM4wu58VKgLIzFIdtXgSK6EZLrWwa5-bvzvkpL5Jr5avMuaGqpgVgs77WkV3ZkvK/s640/duterte-poe.png" title="Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Grace Poe are statistically tied at the top spot in latest Pulse Asia poll" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Grace Poe are statistically tied at the top spot in latest Pulse Asia poll</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The ABS-CBN-commissioned survey conducted from March 8 to 13, 2016 was the first poll conducted after the Supreme Court approved Poe’s candidacy for president. Held nationwide with a sample size of 4,000, the survey yields a margin of error of +/- 1.5%.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-flG3lQ0fSY72vz-E4_fUwo-_xX9sHSXqJoY7PWzzWieDPpJHOM6IOugozRhPBfBMEP-_5P28ZthUqHOU9M8MbKfkBEbENZWYNaCq8Oz5wq3wX2iXOt1cSZthjHa7chS0EMcsi84CKB-/s1600/statistically-tied-duterte-poe.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Duterte, Poe top Pulse Asia survey" border="0" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-flG3lQ0fSY72vz-E4_fUwo-_xX9sHSXqJoY7PWzzWieDPpJHOM6IOugozRhPBfBMEP-_5P28ZthUqHOU9M8MbKfkBEbENZWYNaCq8Oz5wq3wX2iXOt1cSZthjHa7chS0EMcsi84CKB-/s640/statistically-tied-duterte-poe.jpg" title="Duterte, Poe top Pulse Asia survey" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">PHOTO CREDIT: ABS-CBN News</td></tr></tbody></table>Respondents in the poll, who were adults aged 18 and above and were registered voters with Biometrics, were asked the question: “If the coming 2016 election were held today, whom would you vote for as President of the Philippines?” The respondents were shown a sample ballot with a list of candidates as of February 15, 2016.<br /><br />The results of the poll showed that 26% of the respondents preferred Poe, while 25% chose Duterte. Not far behind the frontrunners is Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay who was picked by 22% of the respondents. Administration bet Manuel “Mar” Roxas II was preferred by 20% of the respondents while 3% picked Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago. Five percent of respondents did not choose any presidential candidate.<br /><br />Compared to the poll carried out from March 1 to 6, the latest survey has a bigger sample size which had 2,600 respondents. Poe, who earned 28% of the votes in that survey, had a slight advantage over Duterte, who had 24%.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRindUQvAPj4LeXaLL2oSUms8GNsFL3KISRI-DqJuBRHSivhMDhMU08H5R5otv-dZHodBiGTp8MT9n5iDOkpQC7ZLx5ZluS68c-bt9n0_Lb7LUMSO7FykmTcdNd6v-bHahLOyBoy1-3Io/s1600/duterte-poe-statistically-tied1.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pulse Asia survey president" border="0" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRindUQvAPj4LeXaLL2oSUms8GNsFL3KISRI-DqJuBRHSivhMDhMU08H5R5otv-dZHodBiGTp8MT9n5iDOkpQC7ZLx5ZluS68c-bt9n0_Lb7LUMSO7FykmTcdNd6v-bHahLOyBoy1-3Io/s640/duterte-poe-statistically-tied1.jpg" title="Pulse Asia survey president" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">PHOTO CREDIT: ABS-CBN News</td></tr></tbody></table>Poe emerged as the top choice in the National Capital Region (NCR) and the rest of Luzon (34%). Meanwhile, Roxas remains the preferred candidate in Visayas with 36%. Duterte swept Mindanao with 46% of the votes.<br /><br />While Duterte remains the top pick of respondents coming from Class ABC, Poe was preferred by respondents coming in Class D and E. <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ-sJCrWeQ39tuhI1MFZ446ly_VO2RfBsnAzwQwiZ2p0oJflf85uKwpT7urOfHS-wprJRiKn32aEo1oFxYHM6aj-myosGu_TEUV194Dm8jqBXmLp8lVmW47MQZFBIs_nhusCeX37YW-m-4/s1600/duterte-poe-statistically-tied2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Pulse Asia survey president" border="0" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ-sJCrWeQ39tuhI1MFZ446ly_VO2RfBsnAzwQwiZ2p0oJflf85uKwpT7urOfHS-wprJRiKn32aEo1oFxYHM6aj-myosGu_TEUV194Dm8jqBXmLp8lVmW47MQZFBIs_nhusCeX37YW-m-4/s640/duterte-poe-statistically-tied2.jpg" title="Pulse Asia survey president" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PHOTO CREDIT: ABS-CBN News</td></tr></tbody></table><b>-Mini, The Summit Express</b></div>

Duterte, Poe statistically tied at top spot in new Pulse Asia survey

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VIRAL: Open letter for Gab Valenciano reveals father Gary V’s past infidelity

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">MANILA, Philippines - Gab Valenciano’s debatable <a href="http://pinoybuzz.blogkorner.com/2015/12/mocha-uson-responds-to-gab-valenciano-criticism-against-duterte.html" rel="nofollow">Facebook tirade against Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte</a> has elicited various reactions from netizens. While many admired Valenciano for courageously conveying his thoughts on Duterte’s morality, several others bashed him for criticizing the presidential wannabe.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRDGuD4pOTZulsD8a2sp616byOgS4OJUGb2kfQ4wnz7Bkqc2SgbxXKGP03htKJLG5V8z10UQTy1sja-natqok6J9qNEaTWWLXs3NXFMZlIDMyMywN2hEy8i77nUuLo9teONQBnGuJGQjQ/s1600/GARYV-GAB.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gab Valenciano and Gary V" border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRDGuD4pOTZulsD8a2sp616byOgS4OJUGb2kfQ4wnz7Bkqc2SgbxXKGP03htKJLG5V8z10UQTy1sja-natqok6J9qNEaTWWLXs3NXFMZlIDMyMywN2hEy8i77nUuLo9teONQBnGuJGQjQ/s640/GARYV-GAB.jpg" title="Gab Valenciano and Gary V" width="560" /></a></div><br />In the anonymous open letter shared by a certain <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153727121094820&set=p.10153727121094820&type=3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Irene Kelly on Facebook</a>, Valenciano was reminded to look first at his family before finding faults in others. According to the letter, Gab’s father Gary V was once a womanizer who got another girl pregnant while still in a relationship with another woman.<br /><br />The anonymous letter sender revealed that Gary V’s ex-girlfriend was Felichi Pangilinan-Buizon, the younger sister of Angelie Pangilinan- Valenciano, Gab’s mother. In addition, the letter sender also pointed out that Gab was the child conceived out of indiscretion.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxb2OO0iNiagC_L5c1mr0YYV-zO2Ir8zK54jeQgLjjfb-5EqJ0VKujahgVx9gUQ0wqkOEVyxti95aZ5MdwYtikbn1fDHcxjbhvE8PnP6AiKtRs_LHAi-iOiQTU28jKAetY3oSCyueKTsrx/s1600/open-letter-to-gab-valenciano.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Open letter for Gab Valenciano" border="0" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxb2OO0iNiagC_L5c1mr0YYV-zO2Ir8zK54jeQgLjjfb-5EqJ0VKujahgVx9gUQ0wqkOEVyxti95aZ5MdwYtikbn1fDHcxjbhvE8PnP6AiKtRs_LHAi-iOiQTU28jKAetY3oSCyueKTsrx/s640/open-letter-to-gab-valenciano.jpg" title="Open letter for Gab Valenciano" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">PHOTO CREDIT: Facebook/Irene Kelly</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />“So stop talking about womanizing, values, morality and loyalty when your own parents did not exactly do the right thing either. How come you never condemned your parents?”<br /><br />Stressing that he or she is not supporting any candidate or condoning infidelity, the writer urges Gab to look within his own family before judging others. <br /><br />The writer further said that people admire Gary V for his talent and look beyond his faults in the past.<br /><br />“By the way, I like Gary V because he is a good singer and not because he was a womanizer. A lot of people support and admire Gary because of his talent. They did not judge his faults. Look the story up on Google and on YouTube (Angeli and Felichi opened up about it on the 700 Club show).”<br /><br />In case you’re wondering, here’s a video of the Angeli and Felichi’s interview on 700 Club Asia.<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CvtAIWq1WBA" width="600"></iframe></center><br />Based on Felichi’s testimony in 700 Club Asia, she and Gary V. had a relationship for two months before the latter ended it. Apparently, Gary V. had fallen in love with another woman who happened to be Felichi’s older sister. The new pair eventually tied the knot in 1985.<br /><br />Despite their painful past, Angeli claims that her husband and sister remain best of friends.<b><i> - Mini/TheSummitExpress</i></b></div>

VIRAL: Open letter for Gab Valenciano reveals father Gary V’s past infidelity

MANILA, Philippines - Gab Valenciano’s debatable Facebook tirade against Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has elicited various reactions f...

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