The national committee is tasked with ensuring the smooth visit of Pope Francis in January 2018
About 3 months before the expected visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte formed a national organizing committee to ensure the smooth flow of his visit for the world youth day.
In a memorandum released Friday, October 3, Duterte called for the creation of the Papal Visit and World Youth Day 2018-National Organizing Committee (PVWYD-NOC) to coordinate preparations. The Committee is chaired by Executive Secretary Salvador Meldidea and vice-chaired by Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano.
Other members include:
On Wednesday, Duterte also announced that the Filipino peacekeepers, who successfully escaped a standoff with Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights, have been tasked to secure the Pope.
“As instructed by President Duterte, all heads of the different government departments, local governments as well as the private sectors are encouraged to participate and coordinate all efforts to make sure that the visit of His Holiness in our country next year will be well organized and peaceful,” Meldidea said in a statement.
Among the duties of the committee are ensuring cooperation between public and private sectors, particularly with the central committee of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP); peace and order; and traffic management.
The memorandum, effective immediately, also established two local executive committees – one in Manila and another in Leyte and Marawi – where the Pope is expected to visit. The local committees will “serve as the on-site full-time, day-to-day operations arms of the PVWYD-NOC,” said the statement.
Pope Francis will be making a stop in Leyte and Marawi to visit disaster-hit victims. His visit comes three years and eleven months after Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) killed more than 6,000 people, mostly in Tacloban City in Eastern Visayas and five months after Marawi siege killed 974 militants, 12 militants captured, 168 government forces killed (12 by friendly fire), 1,400+ government forces wounded and 87 civilians dead.
This will mark the first time in three years – only the third time ever – for a pope to go beyond the Philippine capital, Manila, as the first Latin American pontiff vows to reach out to the world's “peripheries.”
The Pope is expected to visit the Philippines on January 17 to 22, 2018. His trip will be the second by a Pope since Pope John Paul II's visit in 1995 and himself in 2015.
About 3 months before the expected visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte formed a national organizing committee to ensure the smooth flow of his visit for the world youth day.
In a memorandum released Friday, October 3, Duterte called for the creation of the Papal Visit and World Youth Day 2018-National Organizing Committee (PVWYD-NOC) to coordinate preparations. The Committee is chaired by Executive Secretary Salvador Meldidea and vice-chaired by Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano.
Other members include:
- Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana
- Interior and Local Government Secretary Catalino Cuy (OIC)
- Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar
- Health Secretary Herminigildo Valle
- Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade
- Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo
- Presidential Communications Operations Office
- Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Lt Gen Eduardo Año
- Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Danny Lim
On Wednesday, Duterte also announced that the Filipino peacekeepers, who successfully escaped a standoff with Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights, have been tasked to secure the Pope.
“As instructed by President Duterte, all heads of the different government departments, local governments as well as the private sectors are encouraged to participate and coordinate all efforts to make sure that the visit of His Holiness in our country next year will be well organized and peaceful,” Meldidea said in a statement.
Among the duties of the committee are ensuring cooperation between public and private sectors, particularly with the central committee of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP); peace and order; and traffic management.
The memorandum, effective immediately, also established two local executive committees – one in Manila and another in Leyte and Marawi – where the Pope is expected to visit. The local committees will “serve as the on-site full-time, day-to-day operations arms of the PVWYD-NOC,” said the statement.
Pope Francis will be making a stop in Leyte and Marawi to visit disaster-hit victims. His visit comes three years and eleven months after Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) killed more than 6,000 people, mostly in Tacloban City in Eastern Visayas and five months after Marawi siege killed 974 militants, 12 militants captured, 168 government forces killed (12 by friendly fire), 1,400+ government forces wounded and 87 civilians dead.
This will mark the first time in three years – only the third time ever – for a pope to go beyond the Philippine capital, Manila, as the first Latin American pontiff vows to reach out to the world's “peripheries.”
The Pope is expected to visit the Philippines on January 17 to 22, 2018. His trip will be the second by a Pope since Pope John Paul II's visit in 1995 and himself in 2015.
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