Death penalty has ‘no place in a Christian country,’ says Papua New Guinea’s bishops
May 14, 2015
Capital punishment has “no place in a Christian country, where true justice and mercy should prevail,” the bishops of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands said in a recent statement.
“Pope John XXIII said that God’s creative and is especially revealed at the moment of conception, at the beginning of a new human life,” the bishops stated. “The life of every person must be respected from conception to natural death. Killing a killer violates the sanctity of every human life.”
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Further information:
- Letter of Bishops: "The evil of capital punishment" (Fides)
- The Evil of Capital Punishment (Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Catholic Bishops Conference)
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