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Country Faces Credibility Crisis
(03 April 2006) – The Philippines today faces a crisis of credibility - a challenge posed by CBCP President Archbishop Angel N. Lagdameo to the country's new generations of leaders.
"We find it difficult to believe in one another or to believe in our leaders," he said to the graduates of Colegio del Sagrado Corazon in Iloilo.
"When a leader says one thing and acts differently from what he had said he would do: that is a failure of in credibility," Lagdameo added.
Therefore, according to him, there is need to protect the youth in which a new generation of leaders will rise up to lead the country to the path of justice, honesty, truth and freedom that the country urgently needs.
"If we lose the young, we lose the hope on which our future hangs," he claimed.
Pope Benedict XVI in his message to the youth of the world on the occasion of the 21st World Youth Day (WYD) which will be observed on April 9, said that youth today "are often held captive by the current ways of thinking" contrary to "God's way of thinking."
"They may think they are free but they are being led astray and become lost amid the errors or illusions of aberrant ideologies," Lagdameo quoted the Pope as saying.
This is the reason why the Church has been calling for the celebration of WYD to sustain "rekindling the flame of hope" the world has on the youth who will also serve as carriers of moral values "in our crisis-ridden globalized society."
Meanwhile, as part the of the Church's on-going formation of the youth, the 14th Asian Youth Day will also be held in Hong Kong on July 28 to August 5 where around one thousand youths are expected to attend.
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