August, 2018
RAPE FOR RENT: Inside Philippines’ £1bn ‘made to order’ child sex abuse industry making sick vids for Brit paedos
August 14, 2018 · By Jon Lockett for www.thesun.co.uk
SKINT parents living in the slums of the Philippines are exploiting their own kids for as little as £2 as part of a made-to-order cybersex industry worth £1billion a year. Children are being regularly abused live on camera to satisfy the sexual appetites of perverted westerners living thousands of miles away. The Pacific Ocean island nation is […]
Read More...The Story Of Father Frank Douglas, Missionary of the society of Saint Columban. By Father John Keenan
August 14, 2018 ·
The Story Of Father Frank Douglas,Missionary of the society of Saint Columban By Father John Keenan Columban Misyon: January-February, 2001 As a new century and a new millennium begins, Pope John Paul II is anxious that the lives and deaths of those who suffered and died heroically in the service of others be recorded and […]
Read More...Grim lives of Bangladesh’s modern-day slaves
August 14, 2018 · By Stephan Uttom, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
A new global report says 592,000 people in Bangladesh are living in conditions amounting to modern-day slavery, triggering mixed reactions from government officials, trade unionists and the church. Bangladesh was ranked 92nd among 167 nations and 19th among 28 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the Global Slavery Index 2018 by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation published […]
Read More...Philippines is Asia’s ‘deadliest place for green activists’
August 14, 2018 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for www.ucanews.com
The Philippines has been ranked as Asia’s most dangerous country for environmentalist, with most victims being tribal people trying to protect their ancestral lands from mining companies and plantation owners. Some 48 environmental campaigners in the Philippines were murdered in 2017, a 71 percent increase on the 28 killings in 2016, according to a report […]
Read More...Chile summons Roman Catholic cardinal in sex abuse case
August 14, 2018 · By apnews.com
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A cardinal has been summoned to appear in a Chilean court as the scandal over sex abuse by priests and others tied to the country’s Roman Catholic Church widens. The archbishop’s office said in a statement Tuesday that Santiago Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati had been called to answer questions about his role […]
Read More...Australian nun wins another reprieve in Philippines
August 13, 2018 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for www.ucanews.com
An Australian missionary nun ordered deported last week by Philippine authorities is not leaving the country just yet. Sister Patricia Fox, of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, won a reprieve after her lawyers filed a motion for reconsideration on July 22. “The deportation order cannot be enforced until it becomes final…. With the filing of […]
Read More...Cardinal: Fight racism with love to honor MLK’s legacy
August 13, 2018 · By www.catholicnewsagency.com
Washington D.C., Jan 11, 2018 / 12:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Americans must recommit to the fight against racism through love and faith, said the head of the U.S. bishops’ conference in the days leading up to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “In recent years – including last summer in Charlottesville – we have glimpsed an […]
Read More...Church’s language about LGBT people must end, Irish group says
August 13, 2018 · By Sarah Mac Donald for www.ncronline.org
DUBLIN — An Irish group campaigning for reform in the Catholic Church has launched a petition ahead of Pope Francis’ papal visit in August to Ireland calling on the Vatican to change its “theological language that is gravely insulting to LGBTQI people.” (The initials stand for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex.”) We Are Church Ireland is encouraging […]
Read More...‘I was kidnapped in London and trafficked for sex’
August 13, 2018 · By Sarah McDermott for www.bbc.com
Anna came to London from Romania intending to study, but first she needed to earn some money. She took temporary jobs – waitressing, cleaning, maths tutoring. Then one day in March 2011 she was snatched off the street, flown to Ireland and put through nine months of hell. Anna was nearly home. There was just […]
Read More...The Global Storm
August 13, 2018 ·
The Global Storm Shay Cullen, mssc. 10 August 2018 We don’t need to be scientists to notice that around the world all creatures are enduring more severe weather conditions in recent years as the planet is getting warmer. We have to keep increase in global temperature below 2 degrees centigrade or we are all […]
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