THE influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Sunday reiterated its call on the faithful to make their voices be heard against drug-related killings as the nation celebrated Christmas Day.

In a pastoral message entitled Feast of Beauty and Hope, which was read as homily in all Masses, CBCP president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the “beauty” of celebrating Christmas has turned into one of “ugliness” because of the unabated widespread killings in the country.

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