One Faith, One Nation, One Voice
September 30, 2020
October 3, 2020, Saturday | 10:00AM – 12:00NN via Zoom and FB Live
In his 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA) President Rodrigo Duterte asked Congress to reinstate the Death Penalty for violators of the Anti-drug law. Following the events in the President’s Anti-Drug war, his promotion of the death penalty is still anti-poor which will only add to the pile of extrajudicial deaths in the Philippines and continued total disregard for civil rights and human lives.
In this youth-led forum, we will take a closer look of legality and ethical aspect of death penalty. As believers in the redeeming love of Christ, we must continue to bear witness to Christ’s promise of abundant life manifested in justice and peace. Now is a time for the Christian faithful to deepen our resolve to choose life, to uphold life. In the face of a looming effort to reinstitute capital punishment in the Philippines, it is urgent for us to make known our call for the strengthening of justice system toward rehabilitation and restoration of persons. We seek redemption and restorative processes, rather than an intensification of a culture of retribution, violence and death in our society.
