Cardinal Rosales sees no religious motive in Italian missionary's abduction

Gaudencio Cardinal Borbon Rosales

Function: Archbishop of Manila

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Birthdate: Aug 10, 1932	Country: Philippines

Elevated: Mar 24, 2006	More information: [link=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brosg.html][www.catholic-hierarchy.org]

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Cardinal Rosales sees no religious motive in Italian missionary's abduction
Jun 14, 2007
The Roman Catholic archbishop of Manila cautioned against attributing any religious motives to the abduction of an Italian missionary in the southern Philippines, on Wednesday calling it a criminal act.

MANILA (AP, June 13, 2007) - In an apparent attempt to prevent recriminations between Muslims and Christians, Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales said the words "Muslim" and "Islam" should not be used to describe the gunmen who seized Giancarlo Bossi on Sunday in the coastal town of Payao in Zamboanga Sibugay province.

"Religion has nothing to do with this, at least as far as we can see it at the moment," he told journalists in Manila. "And if ever those kidnappers did it, no matter what their religion is, they were doing it as criminals."

He said he has written to Eduardo Ermita, executive secretary of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Cabinet, asking him "to please pursue all the possibilities in trying to work for the safe release" of the 57-year-old missionary.

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