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Follow Aquino's example, churches implore Filipinos: Choosing democracy

Church leaders have urged Filipinos to help remove new signs of despotism and to protect the democracy for which former president Corazon Aquino fought and sacrificed.

“She taught us to be on guard against any more tyrants and the necessary struggle we have to take to uphold civil liberties,” the National Council of Churches in the Philippines said in a statement on the eve of Aquino’s burial on August 5.

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