Ministry of Mercy

The Archdiocese of LingayenDagupan in Pangasinan plans to expand its Ministry of Mercy program to further help address the drug problem in the province. “We are planning to include three interrelated approaches namely, education and prevention, community-based rehabilitation, and pastoral care to further help address the socio-pastoral problems of families of victims of extrajudicial killings,” said LingayenDagupan Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas in a Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) News post. The archdiocese will hold a seminar workshop for the Ministers of Mercy on April 5 at the Lay Formation Center in Dagupan City to help prepare the parishes for the expanded program to address the alarming cases of summary executions in the past two years. (Christina I. Hermoso)