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Man and woman charged with over 200 offences – including rape – involving five children
November 14, 2019 · By Anne Lucey for www.independent.ie
A man and a woman have been brought before a court in Kerry charged with over 200 offences involving a total of five children. The garda investigation had taken place over three years and involved a number of locations, the court heard. The matters alleged were “very serious” and the alleged harm “grave”, the District […]
Read More...ICC jails Congo warlord Bosco ‘Terminator’ Ntaganda for 30 years
November 13, 2019 · By DW.com for www.dw.com
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced Congolese rebel chief Bosco ‘Terminator’ Ntaganda to 30 years in prison for 18 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including, murder, sexual slavery, and conscripting child soldiers. The court ruled that the time since Ntaganda turned himself in, in March 2013, will be deducted from the sentence. He […]
Read More...Southern Baptists face sex abuse crisis with litany of lament
November 13, 2019 · By Adelle M. Banks for religionnews.com
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) — The last session of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention opened with thousands of Baptists lamenting for what their president, J.D. Greear, labeled a crisis of sexual abuse. Following along on large screens around the Legacy Arena, women, men, pastors, lay people and survivors took turns reading words drawn […]
Read More...Mexican Pentecostal church says leader is innocent, denies sex crimes charges
November 13, 2019 · By Aysha Khan for www.religionnews.com
(RNS) — Mexico’s largest evangelical church, La Luz del Mundo, is defending its leader, despite his arrest on a slew of sex crime charges involving minors. The church has denied all charges against Naasón Joaquín García, known by church members as the “The Apostle,” in a statement. Church leaders say they are confident Garcia’s innocence […]
Read More...Irish Government criticised over funding for victims of sexual violence
November 12, 2019 · By Mary Regan for www.rte.ie
The Government has been criticised for giving a comparable level of funding to help victims of sexual or gender based violence as it does to the greyhound industry. Solidarity TD, Ruth Coppinger, said women are wondering why a definition of consent was put in to law because it has not made “one jot of impact” […]
Read More...Don’t use single-use plastic
November 12, 2019 ·
A bishop in the Philippines has called on Catholics to shun single-use plastic in the wake of calls made by more than 11,000 scientists across the globe warning of a climate emergency.Bishop Ruperto Santos of Balanga, north of Manila, said people should take climate change seriously by being responsible stewards of creation. “We have to […]
Read More...Church split over army posts in Mindanao disaster zones
November 12, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.org
Church leaders in the southern Philippines are divided over a government order to set up military checkpoints in areas affected by a series of recent earthquakes. Catholic Archbishop Martin Jumoad of Ozamiz said that although the move might delay the delivery of relief goods, the checkpoints are needed because Mindanao is a “risky place.” He […]
Read More...Radio journalist Dindo Generoso shot and killed in the Philippines
November 12, 2019 · By CPJ for cpj.org
Bangkok, November 11, 2019–The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the killing of radio reporter Dindo Generoso in the central Philippines, and called on Philippine authorities to identify the motive behind the killing and bring all of the perpetrators swiftly to justice. Dindo Generoso, a news anchor at dyEM 96.7 FM Bai Radio, was shot […]
Read More...Bangladesh under fire for extrajudicial killings
November 11, 2019 · By ucanews reporters, Dhaka Bangladesh for southasiajournal.net
A global rights group has slammed Bangladesh for hundreds of extrajudicial executions in the guise of so-called anti-drugs clampdowns last year. In 2018, law enforcers in Bangladesh were involved in 466 extrajudicial killings, a series of enforced disappearances and the use of fabricated statements to justify arbitrary executions, according to the latest report from London-based […]
Read More...Teacher from Cebu arrested in 2018 jailed again in US for child porn
November 11, 2019 · By Rosalie Abatayo for cebudailynews.inquirer.net
Cebu City, Philippines—Remember the Cebu City public school teacher who was arrested for allegedly making sexual advances on a 14-year-old athlete during the Palarong Pambansa in Vigan, Ilocos Sur in April 2018? Well, he is behind bars again, this time in New Mexico in the United States. Rodymar Lelis, 29, a former teacher at the Zapatera Integrated […]
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