Dutch missionary red-tagged and deported by Duterte gov’t returns to NL to a warm welcome from Filipino migrant workers, dutch solidarity activists and fellow countrymen
Otto de Vries, a Catholic lay missionary from the Diocese of Rotterdam, who has done pastoral work among the workers and urban poor in the Philippines for three decades, has returned to the Netherlands after being red-tagged and his permanent visa revoked by the Duterte government. The Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) in February canceled…