MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of Filipino students from a Roman Catholic-run school for girl joined Friday a global campaign to free more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists in Nigeria, chanting “bring them back” and urging motorists in the Philippine capital to honk their car horns in solidarity.
About 4,000 grade school to college students and nuns of St. Scholastica’s College spilled out of their campus to line up a busy street in Manila, many of them carrying placards that read “Bring Back Our Girls” and thumping their fists in the air as they chanted. They gave commuters a statement calling for the release of the girls and affirming their belief that girls deserve to be educated.
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