ALARMED by the recent spate of drug-related killings, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has proposed a Church-sponsored multi-sectoral dialogue that would come up with a united response to the illegal drugs problem without reducing it into a political or criminal issue. Let us invite families, national government agencies, local government units, people’s organizations, schools, faith-based communities, the medical profession, the police and military, recovering addicts etc. “The illegal drug problem should not be reduced to a political or criminal issue. The Archdiocese of Manila would be willing to host such multi-sectoral dialogue,” he added. Tagle, likewise, appealed to manufacturers and pushers of illegal drugs, as well as to people behind the series of killings, extra-judicial or otherwise, to stop now.

Source: Manila Times August 20, 2017 08:37 UTC