NEW YORK – When Father Eliseo Napiere was young, growing up on the island of Bohol in the Philippines, he remembers hearing about a missionary priest who was killed in the southern part of the country. It was then he decided to become a missionary priest himself.
“I wondered who would continue the work if missionary priests were being killed and kidnapped, and I thought that I might have the capacity to take the challenges, or the sacrifices, of the missionaries,” Napiere recalled. “So I was inspired by that and that’s why I…
