SAYING that it was done without consultation, a ranking official of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has strongly criticized the directive of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) banning all religious activities outside of churches during the Holy Week amid a spike in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases.

Kalookan Bishop Virgilio David, vice-president of the CBCP, the policy making body of the Catholic Church, said on Wednesday that the religious organizations were never consulted also before the IATF came out with its ruling.

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