"Gambling makes the poor poorer. How can you uplift the condition of rural areas if the population there engages in gambling, betting whatever little they earn from their farms?"
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Priest, an Ex-gambler, Starts Fellowship (7 January 1990) Union of Asian Catholic News
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Edmundo Madarang Abaya
Edmundo Madarang Abaya (19 January 1929 – 20 September 2018) was a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Laoag and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.
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