While I am tucked up in bed, my flock is being slaughtered, says bishop

Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Caloocan, the Philippines, has expressed dismay that he has been unable to protect his flock from "wolves".

He was speaking after masked men shot dead a 27-year-old widow who had been helping bereaved families whose loved ones had been killed in the country's drugs war.

Bishop David, whose flock consists of more than a million Catholics in Caloocan, the country's fourth city, said his diocese had become a "killing field".

"Today, in utter shame and frustration, I declare I have not been a good shepherd to my flock," he said at a Mass for a conference on new evangelisation in Manila.