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Catholics covered in mud and dried banana leaves join the mud people festival on the feast day of Saint John the Baptist at Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

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From left, Al Fuertes, Carlos Conde, Raquel Barros del Rosario-Fortun, Cardinal Pablo Ambo David, Raul Pangalangan and Fr. Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, light candles at a news conference to launch a fact-finding body to document details of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drugs crackdown that can be used by the government to prosecute law enforcers in Manila, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (Credit: Joeal Calupitan/AP.)

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