July, 2018
Preda Fair Trade overcoming poverty
July 14, 2018 ·
Preda Fair Trade overcoming poverty Fr. Shay Cullen Juan and Maria dela Costa are a poor farmer couple living with three children in the mountains of Zambales 140 kilometers north of Manila.They have lived in poverty making a living from planting vegetables, honey and gathering mango fruits to sell in the market many kilometers. Like […]
Read More...Vatican jails priest for having child porn
July 14, 2018 · By AAP for www.news.com.au
A VATICAN court has sentenced a Catholic priest to five years in jail for possessing child pornography while he was based in the US as a diplomat. Carlo Alberto Capella will serve time in the small jail inside the Vatican police force headquarters, the Vatican said on Saturday (local time). He was also fined 5000 […]
Read More...Hong Kong Protestant leaders accused of sexual harassment
July 12, 2018 · By ucanews.com Hong Kong for www.ucanews.com
More than half of alleged sexual offenders identified in a survey of Hong Kong Protestant churches were leaders or pastoral staff. The survey, conducted between August and April by the Hong Kong Christian Council, followed the public airing of sexual misconduct claims against a pastor of the Brotherly Love Swatow Baptist Church. Of 55 responses considered […]
Read More...Philippine church leaders want direct talks with Duterte
July 12, 2018 · By Jose Torres Jr., Manila for www.ucanews.com
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte should talk with the country’s religious leaders in person and not use representatives, according to a senior church official. Father Jerome Secillano, executive secretary of the public affairs committee of the Catholic bishops’ conference, said “actual dialogue” with the president would be better. Early this week, Duterte named a four-man team to […]
Read More...ICC considers prosecuting Myanmar officials over Rohingya crisis
July 11, 2018 · By Rock Ronald Rozario and Stephan Uttom, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is deliberating whether it has the mandate to prosecute Myanmar officials responsible for Rohingya Muslims fleeing en masse from Rakhine State to Bangladesh. The Hague-based ICC judges held a closed-door hearing with the court’s chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on June 20 to decide on whether it has a mandate to […]
Read More...Five women from Jesuit school gang-raped in India
July 11, 2018 · By ucanews.com reporters, Jharkhand for www.ucanews.com
Five women were abducted from a Jesuit-managed school and gang-raped in a forest near the Khunti area of India’s Jharkhand state, police said. Unidentified men on six motorcycles took away the women on the afternoon of June 20 while they were performing a play about social awareness, said A.V. Homkar, the area’s senior police official. […]
Read More...Philippines rights groups launch book on killings
July 10, 2018 ·
A network of human rights groups has launched a book on “issues that negatively impact the right to life” in the Philippines. The network gathered experts from the academe, the religious sector, lawyers, and rights advocates to come up with papers that examine human rights conditions in the country. Lawyer Maria Socorro Diokno, secretary-general of the Free […]
Read More...Protests and strikes against labor-only contracting scheme
July 9, 2018 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church groups and university students in Manila have launched campaigns this week in support of at least half a dozen labor strikes around the Philippine capital. The Catholic group Council of the Laity of the Philippines has issued a call of support for striking workers of a US$360-million food conglomerate. The call has been viewed by many […]
Read More...What tech giants really do with your data
July 9, 2018 · By Tom Calver and Joe Miller for www.bbc.com
Tracking your phone’s gyroscope, scanning your messages and giving your data to third-party companies. These are just three of the things you agree to when signing up to some tech companies’ apps and sites. BBC research has found some of the language used in privacy policies and terms requires a university education to be understood. But […]
Read More...2nd Philippine mayor gunned down in just 2 days
July 9, 2018 · By CBS/AP for www.cbsnews.com
MANILA, Philippines — Philippine police officials say another mayor was shot and killed by an unidentified man in a road attack a day after a city mayor was gunned down in brazen back-to-back killings that prompted an opposition senator to call the country the “murder capital of Asia.” Officials say Mayor Ferdinand Bote of northern General Tinio town […]
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