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Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOThe Catholic Bishopsrsquo; Conference of the Philippines CBCP has issued a pastoral letter urging the faithful to pray for senators as they prepare to vote on the death penalty bill, in hopes of touching their conscience.The pastoral letter was read during Masses yesterday, the third Sunday of Lent.Article continues after this advertisement Let us pray fervently for the legislators of our country as they prepare to vote on the death penalty in the Philippine Senate, the CBCP said in the pastoral statement.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFONBI files raps vs v stanley botella loggers outside PH for disinformationNEWSINFOSC charges retired CA justice over lawyer s murderLet us offer all our Masses for them, asking our Crucified Lord, who offered his whole life, body and blood for the salvation of sinners, to touch their consciences and lead them to abolish capital punishment once and for all, it added.In the statement, CBCP president Archbishop Socrates Villegas also criticized the use of the Bible to defend the death penalty.To the people who use the Bible to defend death penalty, need we point out how many other crimes against humanity h stanley cup ave been justified, using the same Bible he said.Villegas also noted that repressive governments had turned to the death penalty to stanley cup becher stifle dissent or eliminate those perceived as threats to Qggz Apl.de.ap is Clark Green City endorser
Sen. Vicente Sotto III: No bribery INQUIRER FILE PHOTOMANILA, Philippinesmdash;Sen. Vicente Sotto III has dismissed insinuations that the millions of pesos from the administrationrsquo disbursement acceleration program DAP he received was a form of bribery to ensure the conviction of the impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2012.Sotto, the deputy minority leader and the chamberrsquo majority leader during the impeachment trial, said there was no bribery as far as he was concerned, contrary to the claim of Sen. Miriam Santiago.Article continues after this advertisement No one influenced me in my decision as regards the impeachment. Nothing and no one has ever influence stanley quencher d me in my legislative voting record. Check my negative votes against tremendous lobby on the GATT, sin tax, oil deregulation, Epira, etc., Sotto said.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFOPCSO: Still no takers of Ultralotto 6/58, Superlotto 6/49 jackpotsNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationSotto also said he didnrsquo;t receive any DAP fund.My office was asked to submit infrastructure programs that I wanted funded for 2012, so my of stanley cup website fice forwarded some of t stanley quencher he numerous requests that we receive from LGUs local government units . There was no mention of DAP or PDAF or anything else, Sotto said.Sotto said that the requests were made more than five months away.Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, who compla |