Church, lawmakers wary of bases access

AN official of the Catholic Church and several lawmakers on Wednesday cautioned the government against making hasty decisions regarding allowing temporary basing rights to foreign troops, particularly from the United States and Japan.

Bishop emeritus Deogracias I?iguez, Public Affairs committee chairman of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), said the Church will definitely contest the plan to grant foreign forces access to Philippine bases if they perceived that the country is slowly being “colonized.”