There will be difficulties but Filipino workers in Europe can survive the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, said a leading Philippine bishop.
"They will not be much affected," said Bishop Ruperto Santos of Balanga, chairman of the Episcopal Commission on the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.
"There will be difficulties and hardships with this Brexit but our Filipino workers can manage everything," added the prelate.
Bishop Santos said Filipinos are known to be "responsible with their work, respectful with laws, and resilient amid storms in life."
"The working visas of Filipino workers in the UK are not issued by the European Union ... so they can remain in the UK and work there," Bishop Santos said.
The United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union on June 23.