"Our call is simple, clear, and direct. If someone sinned, they must answer for it. No exemptions, no VIPs, no matter the alliance or party. The corrupt must be jailed from top to bottom."
In a statement, SKK renewed its call for accountability of public officials involved in corruption, including Vice President Sara Duterte who is scheduled to face an impeachment trial in July.
"As Bishop of this Diocese, I carry the responsibility given to me at ordination to stand with the poor."
"If we allow such wounds to pass without serious examination, we risk normalizing what should never be tolerated.”
“The root of decades-long suffering on the island of Negros is the exploitation of sugar workers by powerful haciendas, heightened by counter-insurgency military operations that seek to suppress dissent and organization through manifold killings and human rights violations throughout history."
They both emphasized that EDSA was not spontaneous. After 14 years of authoritarian rule, an economic catastrophe, murder, fraud, church mobilization, underground organizing, and a press that was learning how to breathe again, monuments and anniversaries should not be the only things that keep it alive.
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