May, 2018
PH economy growing but poverty still high – World Bank
May 31, 2018 · By Rappler.com for www.rappler.com
‘Despite the generally good economic performance, poverty remains high and the pace of poverty reduction has been slow,’ says the World Bank in its latest report on poverty in the Philippines MANILA, Philippines – Although the Philippine economy continues to grow, around 22 million Filipinos or one-fifth of the country’s population still live below the […]
Read More...Pope Francis reveals he meets with victims of sex abuse on Fridays
May 31, 2018 · By Austen Ivereigh for cruxnow.com
Pope Francis has revealed that “regularly” on Fridays, he meets quietly with a group of survivors of sexual abuse, saying it’s important for him to hear their stories because “what they have been through is so hard, they are destroyed.” The pontiff also said that clerical sex abuse is “the greatest desolation that the Church […]
Read More...Makabayan lawmakers seek Filipino citizenship for Sister Patricia Fox
May 31, 2018 · By Mara Cepeda for www.rappler.com
The Makabayan bloc says Filipino citizenship would be a ‘fitting recognition’ for the Australian nun’s ‘selfless service’ to poor and oppressed Filipinos in the past 27 years MANILA, Philippines – Progressive lawmakers forming the House of Representatives’ Makabayan bloc filed a bill seeking to grant Filipino citizenship to Australian nun Sister Patricia Fox. The following […]
Read More...Cousin sought for rape-murder of 3-year-old girl
May 30, 2018 · By Williamor Magbanua for newsinfo.inquirer.net
KIDAPAWAN CITY – Police authorities here on Monday said they were continuing the manhunt against a man in connection to the rape-slay of a three year old girl here on Saturday. Supt. Ramil Hojilla, the city police chief, identified the suspect as a Rene Bueno of Barangay Singao. Bueno, who remained missing as of Monday, […]
Read More...Boy, 2, beaten to death by guardian in Pangasinan
May 30, 2018 · By Gabriel Cardinoza for newsinfo.inquirer.net
DAGUPAN CITY — For beating a two-year-old boy to death, a woman has been charged for murder in San Fabian town in Pangasinan province, police said on Friday (May 18). Glaiza Silva, 31, repeatedly hit the boy with a bamboo stick and then punched him until he passed out in Angio village on May 13, […]
Read More...Father who attacked his four children with a hammer and drove them into dry stone wall has sentence increased
May 30, 2018 · By Staff Reporter for www.independent.co.uk
A father who attacked his four young children with a hammer before driving them into a wall at 92 mph, has had his jail term increased by 10 years. Owen Scott admitted four counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving after the incident, which occurred while he was in a drug-induced psychosis. The 29-year-old from […]
Read More...Father accused of ‘sadistically torturing’ ten children found living amid human faeces and rotten food
May 30, 2018 · By Tom Embury-Dennis for www.independent.co.uk
Ten children found living with their parents amid human faeces and rotten food were “sadistically tortured” at a home in northern California, authorities said. Ina Rogers denied she or her husband abused their offspring, but police in the city of Fairfield said they had suffered puncture wounds, burns, bruising and injuries consistent with being shot […]
Read More...Jastine Valdez killed ‘less than an hour’ after apparently random abduction, gardai believe
May 29, 2018 · By Independent.ie Newsdesk, Robin Schiller and Ken Foy for www.independent.ie
GARDAI are investigating if Jastine Valdez was killed within an hour of apparently being randomly abducted on Saturday evening. The Filipino student, 24, was spotted being bundled into a black jeep in Enniskerry at approximately 6.15pm on Saturday. A body, believed to be that of Ms Valdez, was found in a disused golf course in […]
Read More...Bishop denounces insinuations by the President against murdered priest.
May 29, 2018 · By Jose Torres Jr., Manila for www.ucanews.com
Bishops condemn motive rumours, accuse president of murdering Father Mark Anthony Ventura for a second time Catholic bishops in the Philippines have condemned what they described as “unfounded rumors and malicious insinuations” being circulated by no less than President Rodrigo Duterte on the motive behind the killing of a priest in the country’s north. Father […]
Read More...Australian nun defies Philippine order to leave
May 29, 2018 · By Mark Saludes and Jose Torres Jr., Manila for www.ucanews.com
Immigration bureau warns deportation proceedings will be initiated if Sister Fox fails to comply An Australian nun ordered by the Philippine authorities to leave the country on May 25 said she is not leaving voluntarily. Catholic missionary Patricia Fox claimed she was not given due process when the Bureau of Immigration downgraded her missionary visa […]
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