THE influential Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Thursday called on Filipinos to unite against moves to revive the death penalty, which President Rodrigo Duterte wants to use in his war against crime.

The CBCP president, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbisbop Socrates Villegas, made the call a day after the House justice committee approved the bill restoring the death penalty for 21 “heinous crimes.”

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