CBCP to push fight vs death penalty

THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is confident that life will eventually triumph over death even if the House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that seeks to reimpose the death penalty.

In a pastoral letter, CBCP president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas on Wednesday said that the passage of House Bill (HB) 4727 is tantamount to granting authorities “license to kill.”