President Rodrigo Duterte merely used a figure of speech when he urged tambays or bystanders to steal and kill Catholic bishops, Malacañang said on Saturday.

Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo said Duterte only meant to stress the failure of Church officials to empathize with the poor.

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