August, 2017
Missouri woman charged with killing autistic daughter
August 29, 2017 · By Associated Press for newsinfo.inquirer.net
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri woman was charged Tuesday with killing the autistic teenage daughter she gave up for adoption as a baby, weeks after the girl’s remains were found in a burn pit on her remote property and months after the girl moved back from Minnesota, where she was raised. Rebecca Ruud, 39, […]
Read More...PNP, PAO agree: Kian kneeling when killed
August 29, 2017 · By Rambo Talabong for www.rappler.com
This comes while the Philippine National Police found only 2 bullets, while the Public Attorney’s Office found 3 entering Kian delos Santos’ body MANILA, Philippines – Kian delos Santos was shot kneeling down, the Philippine National Police (PNP) confirmed Thursday, August 24. “The position of the victim, he was kneeling down. He was kneeling face […]
Read More...Wealth of 50 Filipinos account for 24% of PH’s 2016 GDP
August 29, 2017 · By Chrisee Dela Paz and Chris Schnabel for www.rappler.com
(4th UPDATE) Henry Sy Sr tops Forbes’ Philippines rich list in 2017 for a decade now, but younger and self-made tycoons are gaining ground MANILA, Philippines (4th UPDATE) – No other man benefits more from the country’s brisk economic growth than Henry Sy Sr, whose fortune ballooned to a high of $18 billion, making him […]
Read More...Religious leaders to hold protest against Trump in Washington
August 29, 2017 · By JULIA MANCHESTER for thehill.com
Over a thousand religious leaders from various faiths will gather in Washington, D.C., on Monday to protest President Trump’s moral leadership. The “One Thousand Ministers March for Justice,” which was organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton, will fall on the 54th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. The rally […]
Read More...The Killing of Children
August 25, 2017 ·
The Killing of Children Fr. Shay Cullen 25 August 2017 The President is having a very successful campaign against suspected drug dealers and drug users. The killing of a 17-year old Grade 11 student, Kian Loyd delos Santos, by police in an anti-drug operation last week during which as many as 94 people were shot […]
Read More...A letter from His Eminence Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle
August 25, 2017 · By NEWS AND EVENTS, RCAM for www.edsashrine.org
A letter from His Eminence Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle will be read in all masses (August 20) after communion. Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Archdiocese of Manila, On August 12-17, 2017, I participated in the meeting of Caritas Latin America held in El Salvador, a country where many people had been killed in a […]
Read More...Revealed: Luxury life of alleged child torturer Peter Scully’s assistant revealed
August 25, 2017 · By www.nzherald.co.nz
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The luxury life while on the run of alleged child torturer Peter Scully’s assistant Liezyl Margallo has been revealed following her arrest. Margallo, who is now in a Philippines prison awaiting trial on charges of assisting the Australian accused sex predator in child torture and murder, evaded police for a year. Scully, […]
Read More...What General Pershing Was Really Doing in the Philippines
August 24, 2017 · By JONATHAN M. KATZ for www.theatlantic.com
Trump has again recirculated a debunked history about terrorism. But what the general was really doing in the Philippines can tell us something more important about America. Another day, another sputtering orgy of confusion following a cryptic Donald Trump tweet. This one came Thursday, a few hours after a van plowed into a crowd on […]
Read More...Catholic Church claimed child sex abuse victims ‘consented’
August 23, 2017 · By Fiona Keating for www.independent.co.uk
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority has refused payment to 700 victims and child sexual abuse survivors The Catholic Church and British local authorities have been accused of using a legal loophole to avoid paying compensation to victims of child sex abuse. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme, a government agency, has denied some children financial settlements […]
Read More...South Georgia couple, both police officers, charged with child abuse
August 23, 2017 · By Ellen Eldridge The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for www.ajc.com
The GBI has arrested a South Georgia couple, both of whom are police officers, in connection with abuse of their adopted children. Tracy Jones, 47, is an officer with the Jacksonville (Fla.) Police Department and Rosemary Jones, 36, is an officer with the Poulan Police Department in Worth County, the GBI said Tuesday in a […]
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