President: I apologized to God

While he was reacting to public reactions about his rant against God, President Rodrigo Duterte declared that he had apologized to the Almighty shortly after realizing his error

. Eddie Villanueva, Tuesday night in Malacañang, said that he was sorry for God after calling him "stupid", which sparked public outrage and incited Catholics to a day of Prayer

"If we have the same God, I'm sorry, it's like that .. Sorry, God .. I said God sorry – if God is caught in a general term by everyone listening, then it's good and good, "said the president in Villanueva at their two-hour meeting

Malacañang released a video of the meeting Wednesday, Villanueva demanded that the President apologize publicly to God, otherwise the wrath of the Lord would come upon the land and the Filipinos.

"From his remarks after the meeting, Brother Eddie Villanueva seemed exalted [about] the result of his dialogue with the president.The video published by Malacañang is explicit," said Wednesday the chief legal adviser to the president, Salvador Panelo .

Villanueva mum

Villanueva, founder of the Jesus Is Lord movement, did not respond to Inquirer

The president and Villanueva were at their table at the Malago Clubhouse, in the Malacañnang Park, to attend the meeting, special assistant Christopher Go and cousin Villanueva, lawyer Angelino Villanueva

. balked to apologize for his "stupid God" remark during a disconnected speech in Davao City on June 22, which aimed at the biblical story of creation and challenged the wisdom of God by creating Adam and Eve only to let them fall from grace.

"I will not do that (sorry, sorry), certainly not in a million years," he told vice-mayors in Panglao, Bohol, late last month. "You know that God is personal." The president also met with the Archbishop of Davao, Romulo Valles, Monday afternoon, a few hours after the leader of the Catholic Church called for a day of prayer. July 16 for people who had blasphemed God and murdered their fellow men.

Valles also called on Catholics to join bishops for three days of fasting and abstinence from July 17 to 19.

his meeting with Valles, the 73 The leader of one year accepted "a moratorium on the statements" against the Church.The next day he addressed the Church with pungent words against his detractors, but he later refused to attack the institution.

The president's dialogue with religious leaders had long been planned following his attacks on priests in response to criticism from the church on his brutal repression of drugs

L This dialogue became urgent as a result of the public's indignation against its diatribe in the largely Catholic nation, which several religious leaders – including Villanueva – called blasphemy

. In the meeting, Villanueva read a prepared statement where he felt that "the President should excuse not the people but the religion but God," according to Panelo.

Video Palace

The president told Villanueva that he had apologized to God, said the chief presidential adviser.

"Immediately after making these remarks and telling God," Sorry my God, "said the President. In the video, Villanueva asked if the president made an immediate apology to God. The President replied, "Yes, of course."

The President, however, drew attention to the apology presented to the public

"But I only apologize to God, no one else." had wronged God, he would be happy to listen.Why? Because my God forgives everything.Why? Because? He does not remember past wounds.Why? Because? God? created to be good and not be bad, "he said in the video.

Remarks to Fox

The President also explained that he had made these remarks in response to Australian missionary Patricia Fox, who faced the deportation of the alleged violations terms of his visa by joining political rallies.

"You are doing strikes and I have said that my God is a good God He does not feed on lies and never embraces people", he said, without naming Fox

thanking the president for his explanation, saying that "he and other Christian groups misunderstood him." Villanueva prayed for their president and they both prayed fervently, at- he says.