Accepting refugees ‘a moral duty’ – CBCP

MORE than its international obligation, the Philippines or any other country has the moral duty to help refugees or the so-called boat people who are fleeing their homelands as a consequence of political conflicts, according to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

Lingayen-Dagupan Archibishop Socrates Villegas, president of the CBCP, on Thursday took the cudgels for thousands of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority and Bangladeshi migrants who have fled their countries to seek refuge or asylum in other countries.