Manila--In ceremony on January 20, surrounded by Cardinal Jaime Sin, president Corazon Aquino, and former general Fidel Ramos, Gloria MacapagalArroyo, vice-president and opposition leader, was sworn in as the 14th president of the Philippines before a great multitude who gathered at the Edsa shrine in Manila.
The ousting of former president Joseph Estrada through peaceful protest, amid charges of corruption in his impeachment trial, was backed by Cardinal Sin, who denounced Estrada as a "disaster" and demanded his resignation. In solidarity with Cardinal Sin, Archbishop Franco, Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, had issued a strong statement from the Vatican in …
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