The Problem of Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines: A Moral and Legal Crisis Extrajudicial killings (EJK) in the Philippines have been a significant human rights concern, particularly in the context of the war on drugs and political conflicts. These killings, carried out without due process of law, raise serious ethical, legal, and societal issues. […]
By: Bishop Pablo Virgilio David Every now and then, something embarrassing happens in the war against drugs. It turns out that it’s the police against the police; the police not knowing it’s their fellow men in uniform they are pursuing. These incidents happen by sheer accident; they are taken by surprise when the disclosure happens. […]
By Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News MANILA – The country’s illegal drug problem should be solved but not by taking innocent lives, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said Tuesday. “We as a Church would like the drug menace to stop. We do not want drugs to proliferate because drugs affect not […]
“We believe that our national healing, which only Lord can grant, will come to us through the hands of His mother.” – Most Rev. Socrates Villegas, D.D. (Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan; CBCP President) In response to the call of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines President to participate in the second phase of this period […]
