BALANGA City: Bataan Bishop Ruperto Santos on Sunday said he hopes that President Rodrigo Duterte will include in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 24 the creation of a Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (DOFW).

“Now is the time to fulfill the President’s promise for the OFWs to have their own department,” according to Santos, chairman of the Episcopal Commission of Migrants and Itinerant People of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

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