August 12, 2020
To: All Laiko Members: Arch/Diocesan Councils of the Laity & National Lay Organizations
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
We have just released a Statement expressing our strong opposition to the Death Penalty Bill being considered in Congress. A copy of which has been sent to you yesterday. We urge the Heads of member organizations to disseminate this to your respective members and encourage each to make your own statement in support of our united stand for Life.
The following are concrete ways you may consider to make our position be heard:
1. Make banners with messages to express our stand and place them in our group’s offices/centers or if possible, even in our homes;
2. Encourage your members to write / visit the Senators and their Congressmen to express our strong opposition to the Death Penalty;
3. Encourage everyone to participate in fora or other activities where this issue will be discussed;
4. Watch and share with your constituents / members the webinar on Death Penalty given by CHR Commissioner Karen Dumpit last August 8, 2020 and all the other webinars on societal issues sponsored by LAIKO. They are all posted at the Facebook page of Laiko & CBCP News;
5. Visit the Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas Website (cbcplaiko.org) and FB page as well as the CBCP News FB page for updates;
6. Pray! Pray! And Pray! Let us redouble our prayers so that our legislators will be enlightened and listen to the voice of God and the majority of the Filipino people.
WE MUST MAKE A STAND FOR LIFE!
“CHOOSE LIFE …THAT YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS MAY LIVE.”(Deuteronomy 30:19)
Sincerely yours in the service of the Lord,
Noted by:
+MOST REV. BRODERICK S. PABILLO, D.D.
Chairman, CBCP Episcopal Commission on the Laity
