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Eloisa Lopez

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 the Netherlands. She is a regular contributor to Reuters, and is the winner of the 2019 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation.

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Photographs by Eloisa Lopez

Church vs. State

Summer 2019 | Reporting

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?