The death of Filipino seafarer Mariah Jocson saddened an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People.
CBCP ECMI vice chairman Bishop Ruperto Santos said it was an overseas Filipino worker’s story with a “tragic ending.”“A life was lost—a life [that] could [have been] saved,” he said in an interview on June 12, Friday.
“Our attention should be more focused on the situation of our OFWs [so] as to give them hope, to help and heal them,” said Santos. It is sad, Santos said, that government officials set their time and talents on non-essential things and not-so-urgent matters. “We invoke our almighty God in His mercy to remember their services and sacrifices for their loved ones, and forgive their human frailties,” Santos said.
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