Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mar 5, 2019 / 17:32 pm
A bishop in the Philippines is speaking out against the death penalty of a Filipino woman who has been condemned to death in Saudi Arabia.
"We turn to God in prayers that He may move the [Saudi] government to be merciful and grant clemency," said Bishop Ruperto Santos of Balanga, head of the Filipino bishops' Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People, in a statement this week.
"She has to be helped and assisted. Let us try everything to save her," he said, according to the Manila Bulletin.
On Feb. 28, the Saudi Court of Appeals upheld the death sentence of an unnamed Filipino woman, who was convicted in 2017 for killing her employer. The woman claimed to have acted in self-defense against an abusive employer.