BACOLOD CITY — The Diocese of Bacolod will be hanging a new tarpaulin to protest the rise of extrajudicial killings of drug suspects. Starting Thursday (Aug. 4), a tarpaulin with the message “Thou shalt not kill” will hang in front of the San Sebastian Cathedral, the seat of the Bacolod Diocese here. The Diocese of Bacolod would be standing up for the sacredness of human life, amid the mounting killings in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, Pasquin said. “We are in favor of the campaign against drugs, but are taking a strong stand against the rampant extrajudicial killings of drug suspects,” Pasquin said. The Supreme Court last year ruled in favor of the Diocese of Bacolod that caught the ire of the Commission on Elections when it posted the tarpaulins.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 03, 2016 23:15 UTC