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Be good stewards of health, CBCP urges Pinoys in Easter message . April 20, 2014, GMAnews With the Christian world celebrating the triumph of Christ over death, Philippine Catholic bishops on Sunday urged Filipinos to be good stewards of health. In its Easter pastoral instruction, the CBCP said taking care of this body is not…

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Be good stewards of health, CBCP urges Pinoys in Easter message .
April 20, 2014, GMAnews

With the Christian world celebrating the triumph of Christ over death, Philippine Catholic bishops on Sunday urged Filipinos to be good stewards of health.

In its Easter pastoral instruction, the CBCP said taking care of this body is not always an exercise of vanity but is a spiritual duty as good stewards of health.

“As we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, let us also renew our faith in the resurrection of the body. This body as we have it is a gift from God. This body as we have it will be resurrected and will be changed,” CBCP president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said.

But Villegas also took a dig at the Reproductive Health law, whose constitutionality the Supreme Court upheld last April 8.

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