November, 2012
Radio Interview at Radio Warzawa (Warsaw, Poland) to encourage active participation of the Polish people in the Fair Trade movement
November 22, 2012 ·
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Fr. Shay Cullen talking about Fair Trade and Preda's work at Telewizja Polska, Polish National TV Station
November 22, 2012 ·
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Priest serves ‘the least of these’ among Philippine poor
November 22, 2012 · , editorsub1, UCANEWS
On Sunday mornings, Franciscan Priest Pete Montallana says Mass before a crowd of bedraggled residents in an open space amid ramshackle homes. Montallana is no outsider; he himself lives in a 1,500-peso-per-month room ($36) in the middle of this Quezon City slum. His bathroom is shared with dozens of others. Welcome to Apolo West Riverside […]
Read More...Agrarian reforms policy is failing the people it was meant to help
November 22, 2012 · , Kerima Bulan T. Navales, Davao City
Since February, Carmen Omambac has been prohibited from entering the land she and her family tilled for 30 years in the village of Santa Cruz on Talicud Island of Samal in Davao del Norte province. Her neighbors were sent to jail for allegedly stealing coconuts from the trees they themselves planted. Omambac’s situation is different […]
Read More...Bono says John Paul II helped cancel Third World debt
November 22, 2012 · , UCAN Philippines
The famous U2 vocalist Bono traveled to the Vatican Nov. 16 to thank the Church for its work to free the world’s least developed countries from their foreign debt, enabling them to invest in education. On Friday, Bono spent nearly an hour speaking with Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and […]
Read More...Right of reply?
November 22, 2012 · , Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas S. J.
by Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S.J Had not the debate on the Freedom of Information bill been aborted last Tuesday, it might have taken up the issue of “right of reply.” Actually, this is not the first time that the right of reply has reached Congress. In 2009 a bill on the subject sought preferential […]
Read More...Fair Trade Towns are a force for good
November 21, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Fair Trade Towns are a force for good by Fr. Shay Cullen email: [email protected] (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) Last November 9, I was invited to Poznan, Poland to address the delegates from 23 countries representing the towns that had been certified […]
Read More...Health is universal good to be defended, not commoditized, says pope
November 21, 2012 · , Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Good health is a benefit that needs to be defended and guaranteed for all people, not just for those who can afford it, Pope Benedict XVI told hundreds of health care workers. The new evangelization is needed in the health field, especially during the current economic crisis “that is cutting resources […]
Read More...Prestigious award for the "Rebel" nuns
November 21, 2012 · , Fabrizio Mastrofini, Rome (VATICAN INSIDER via CNUA)
The Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) has been awarded the prestigious Herbert Haag 2013 prize The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States which is being monitored by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was proud to announce that […]
Read More...Fr. Shay, Mayor Ryszard Grobelny & Tadeus Makulski actively promoting FT
November 20, 2012 ·
The Mayor of Poznan Mr.Ryszard Grobelny, Fr. Shay Cullen and Tadeusz Makulski of Fair Trade Towns Poland actively promoting Fair Trade
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