“The decrease in family values and prayers is leading the young people towards earthly career development and away from priesthood and religious life,” Celso Fernandes says.
"It has been my dream to serve the kids, youth, elders, and native people by evangelizing Christ in any way I can, and that dream led me to become religious," Samantha Ashley Zaballero said.
Father Ulep urged the audience to contemplate the societal frameworks that enable the epidemic of poverty-related deaths and to embrace the discomfort they cause.