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“We can only fight this battle in the best way we can—through prayer and well-discerned action,” said Bishop Pablo Virgilio David

In a pastoral letter, the country’s Catholic bishops called on the Filipino people to “fight indifference” especially during the elections

The bishops noted that some “have always been mere spectators – unconcerned until they are personally affected”

Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines on the May 9, 2022, national elections

Let us fervently offer our prayers and sacrifices “for the violence to stop and for the voice of peace to be heard”

The Episcopal Commission on Liturgy of the bishops’ conference said priests are now allowed to put ashes on the foreheads of churchgoers

The instruction gives directions to the important celebrations of the liturgical, namely the Lenten season and the Paschal Triduum

The bishops issued the call as the country marks the 36th anniversary of the 1986 “people power revolution” that ousted Ferdinand Marcos

A Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines on the 1986 People Power Revolution and the May 2022 elections

“A good Christian will vote for someone who will continue to uphold the true spirit of the People Power Revolution,” said Bishop David