Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan, Philippines, condemned Israel's actions in Gaza during his Christmas Eve sermon, drawing parallels to the plight of the Holy Family.
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of Kalookan, criticized the state of Israel on Christmas Eve for its relentless attacks on Gaza that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. 'I can’t think of any other people in the world who live in darkness and are always in the shadow of death than them,’ David said in Filipino during the last Simbang Gabi Mass on Tuesday, December 24. David, 65, connected this to the Christmas message by leading churchgoers to reimagine Jesus’ birth.
A biblical scholar educated at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, David has often emphasized David, known for his defense of human rights especially during Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, said Catholics should not “romanticize” the manger at Bethlehem. “I think that if the Holy Family were to look for an inn today, they would not stay in Bethlehem but in the Gaza Strip and find a collapsed house in which to give birth to the Son of God,” the cardinal said. David said he understands that many Filipinos show great sympathy toward Israel because the Philippines is a Christian-majority country. In addition, many Filipinos work in Israel under Jewish employers. “So it is but natural that many Filipinos would feel greater affinity with the Israelis,” he said
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