CBCP tackles mental health awareness offering counseling, apology

Filipino bishops have issued a pastoral letter on mental health awareness, acknowledging the "unseen burden" of people dealing with anxiety, depression, addiction, loneliness, grief, and raising a proposal to "listen and offer accompaniment" by establishing counseling groups. The members of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) also apologized to families that are grieving the loss of a loved one through suicide who felt they were shunned by the Church.