Kalookan Bishop and CBCP president Pablo Virgilio David (centre) shares to journalists the resolutions reached by the plenary assembly of bishops in Cagayan de Oro City. With him are Boac Bishop Marcelino Antonio Maralit Jr., chairman of the CBCP’s Episcopal Commission on Social Communications (right), and San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza, Bishop of San Carlos, member of the CBCP Episcopal Commission on Social Action, Justice and Peace (left). - Photo: Inquirer Mindanao
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, (Philippines): Amid tensions due to Chinese incursions in the West Philippine Sea, Catholic leaders are calling on the faithful to pray that the situation would be resolved peacefully.
Kalookan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), said they were coming up with an obligatory prayer or Oratio Imperata for Peace to be prayed in all churches throughout the country.
