Hong Kong Campaign for the Advancement of Human Rights and Peace in the Philippines

HKCAHRPP is a member of the International Campaign to Stop the Killings in the Philippines (STOP THE KILLINGS or STK) network

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

JUSTICE FOR BISHOP RAMENTO, JUSTICE FOR ALL THE VICTIMS OF POLITICAL KILLINGS

Supreme Bishop Alberto Ramento (center), former head of the Philippine Independent Church (PIC) and co-chairman of the Ecumenical Bishops' Forum (EBF) with Hong Kong fact-finding mission delegates Serenade Woo, Chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association and Jackie Hung of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese last July in the Philippines. Bishop Ramento was stabbed to death by assailants believed to be from the military inside his parish church yesterday morning.