Tagle seeks ‘multi-sectoral’ dialogue for ‘unified’ response to drug menace

ALARMED by the recent spate of drug-related killings, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has proposed a Church-sponsored multi-sectoral dialogue that would come up with a united response to the illegal drugs problem without reducing it into a political or criminal issue.

In a letter read on Sunday in all Churches in the Archdiocese of Manila, Tagle said that the there was no debate that the drug menace was real and destructive but stressed that given the complexity of the issues, “no single individual, group or institution could claim to have the only right response.”