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        "msgid": "estrada-aide-blasts-bishops-1447893297",
        "date": "1999-05-14 00:00:00",
        "title": "Estrada aide blasts bishops",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Estrada aide blasts bishops MANILA (AFP): Philippine President Joseph Estrada's chief adviser, Ronaldo Zamora, berated Roman Catholic bishops on Thursday for allegedly stoking hostile actions among opponents of a defense pact with the United States. Leaders of the country's dominant religion issued a pastoral statement this week urging the senate to reject the \"Visiting Forces Agreement\" for its alleged unfair provisions.",
        "content": "<p>Estrada aide blasts bishops<\/p>\n<p>MANILA (AFP): Philippine President Joseph Estrada's chief<br>\nadviser, Ronaldo Zamora, berated Roman Catholic bishops on<br>\nThursday for allegedly stoking hostile actions among opponents of<br>\na defense pact with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the country's dominant religion issued a pastoral<br>\nstatement this week urging the senate to reject the \"Visiting<br>\nForces Agreement\" for its alleged unfair provisions.<\/p>\n<p>Press reports here quoted a ranking member of the Catholic<br>\nBishops Conference of the Philippines as saying many Filipinos<br>\nopposed the pact and that ratification would \"provoke violent<br>\nstreet protests.\"<\/p>\n<p>The agreement is set to be ratified by the senate next week.<\/p>\n<p>Ratification would enable Washington to resume large-scale<br>\nannual military exercises with Manila which were suspended in<br>\n1995 due to ambiguity in criminal jurisdiction for visiting<br>\nforeign troops.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/estrada-aide-blasts-bishops-1447893297",
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