Father luciano felloni biography
Father luciano felloni biography
Church Rehabilitation of Filipino Drug Addicts | La Salette ......
ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Government anti-drug campaign: the Church's commitment to the rehabilitation of drug addicts
Friday, 10 August 2018 drugs addictions local churches solidarity civil society violence human rights
Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Father Luciano Airel Felloni, an Argentinian missionary who has lived in the Philippines for twenty years, has started a serious effort to rehabilitate drug addicts and lead them to live a meaningful and dignified life in his parish in the diocese of Novaliches, near Manila.
This is the approach that the Church in the Philippines proposes in response to the "anti-drug" campaign launched by Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte who, since his election in June 2016, has mobilized law enforcement agencies to solve the problem of drugs in the country in a violent way.
The government's strategy, based on fear and the action of law enforcement, is highly criticized: since the beginning of hi