translated from Spanish: Deported nun after 27 years of being missionary

Manila-Arropada by hundreds of followers, the Australian nun Patricia Fox said goodbye to Philippines in a ceremony in his honor hours before having to leave the country that considers your home after 27 years working ndo as a missionary.

Hundreds of people show their love Patricia Fox. AP Photo “I feel sad, especially when I talk to all the people who have come to say goodbye to me and I fall into the account that already tomorrow them will not see”, said Fox, 72, that act in homage of farewell at the Christian College Saint Joseph de Manila.Fox said “that doesn’t”regret nothing”, that his”only crime was defending human rights”and you will return to the Philippines as soon as he finished the mandate of President Rodrigo Duterte, who has made no secret that he did not want it in the country.” All I’ve done is part of the teachings of the Church,”said Fox, who has played much of his work in poor rural areas of the Philippine archipelago. Hundreds of friends and supporters, attended the farewell hours before the nun travel tonight to Australia, when the Immigration Office rejected Wednesday the extension of the tourist visa. This office withdrew him last April the visa of missionary for violating their conditions in his alleged “involvement in political activities” and ordered their deportation, a case that Fox used and that the Justice Department must fail.

Patricia Fox. AP on April 16 the nun was detained by immigration authorities after returning from a trip to the island of Mindanao to check on the spot the abuses that were occurring there under martial law. Fox, mother superior of the Catholic Congregation of Notre Dame de Sion in the Philippines, was then accused of “violating the rules of his congregation to attend protests and participate in political activities”. When exhausted you the resources to retrieve the visa of missionary, Fox resorted to a valid tourist visa for 59 days, expiring just today. After the ceremony of farewell in Saint Joseph, a caravan of supporters accompanied the religious to Baclaran Redemptorist Church, where a mass in his honor was celebrated and where another caravan Ninoy Aquino de Manila.Fox will escort you to the airport he will leave the country in the Philippines Airlines flight to Melbourne from 2110 hours (1300 GMT) and your name will be included on a blacklist that will prevent you to return to the Philippines.

“The faith which proclaims is not detrimental to the filipinos. In fact, is a source of hope and comfort to our fellow countrymen who are suffering”, said in a release, the spokesman for the Conference of Catholic Bishops, Jerome Secillano, about the”questionable”reasons for the deportation of the sister Fox.En this note:

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