MANILA -
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday taunted the country's Catholic priests and bishops to take highly addictive crystal methamphetamine, as he accused them of "hypocrisy" for criticising his deadly drug war.
Duterte launched his broadside in response to the powerful Catholic Church mounting a campaign to stop the killings in his anti-drugs drive, which has claimed about 6,000 lives in less than seven months.
Duterte said that while parish priests around the country were well aware of the extent of the illegal drug problem, their leaders who had been railing about "extrajudicial killings" were clueless.
"The (critical) priests should take shabu to understand. I recommend one or two of the bishops take it also," Duterte said, using the local term for crystal meth, the country's most-used illegal drug.
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