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Church vs. State
Portraits of slain victims of the Philippine drug war. Manila, November 2018
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal but popular war on drugs has forced the Catholic Church to ask itself a defining question: What is its responsibility under an immoral regime?
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Issue: Summer 2019 / Volume 95/2
Published: June 3, 2019
Adam Willis, a former VQR intern, is a freelance writer based in Washington, DC. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Politico, the Outline, Commonweal, and Slate. His reportage on the Philippine Catholic Church is supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Eloisa Lopez is a photojournalist based in Manila, Philippines, with a special interest in stories on human rights, women’s issues, and religion. Since 2016, she has worked extensively to document the ongoing war on drugs in the Philippines; her work has been exhibited in France, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and...