December, 2018
Don’t forget what Christmas is really about, pope says
December 28, 2018 · By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service for www.ucanews.com
Christmas will not be authentic if people get caught up in a frenzy of shopping, presents and meals, all while ignoring the poor and forgetting who the celebration is really all about, Pope Francis said. “If Christmas ends up as just a beautiful traditional holiday,” where everything revolves around “us and not him, it will […]
Read More...Genetically edited twins and the issue of ‘superhumans’
December 28, 2018 · By ucanews.com reporter, Hong Kong for www.ucanews.com
The claimed creation of the world’s first genetically edited babies — twin girls in China — has stirred debate amid profound ethical and spiritual implications. This includes conflicting views on the desirability or otherwise of a future with so called “superhumans” bred with disease resistance and other perceived advantages. One fear is that such predestination would […]
Read More...Convictions bring justice for abused children
December 28, 2018 · By Father Shay Cullen, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Strict justice and an unrelenting crackdown on child abusers are needed to protect children from sexual abuse. In the Philippines, more Filipino child abusers are being convicted than ever before. Judges are delivering justice. American nationals who have a history of child abuse become “persons of interest” and are placed under surveillance by Philippine and […]
Read More...Children bear brunt of Asia’s hunger pains
December 27, 2018 · By Michael Sainsbury for www.ucanews.com
As Christmas approaches, it’s worth noting that over half a billion people in Asia are still suffering from chronic hungerwhile, at the other end of the scale, obesity is increasing at an alarming rate. Africa is so often presented as the epicenter of world hunger but it is in Asia, which has triple the population, that […]
Read More...Philippines extends martial law again in Mindanao
December 27, 2018 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com/a>
The southern Philippine region of Mindanao and its approximately 25.5 million population will remain under military rule for another 12 months, or until the end of 2019. A joint session of Congress on Dec. 12 approved a request by President Rodrigo Duterte to extend martial law across the region. Voting 235 in favor, 28 against, and with […]
Read More...U.S. returns historic church bells to the Philippines
December 27, 2018 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
After more than a century, the United States government has returned three church bells swiped by American forces as war booty from the central Philippine town of Balangiga in 1901. After years of repeated demands for their return from Manila, the bells were brought home aboard a U.S. military plane on Dec. 11. The United States will […]
Read More...CHRISTMAS IS FREEDOM FOR JAILED AND ABUSED CHILDREN
December 26, 2018 ·
Christmas celebrates the birth of the man who brought us the belief in human dignity, freedom, peace, the right of all to equality and justice and put children and women as the most important in the world. So much good to celebrate but much to regret since many people do not believe in those values […]
Read More...Child suicides on the rise in Bangladesh
December 26, 2018 · By Stephan Uttom and Rock Rozario, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
A lack of awareness among families and teachers as well as inadequate facilities for mental health care of children are behind an alarming rise in child suicides in Bangladesh, health experts and child rights activists say. There have been at least 293 child suicides and 22 attempted child suicides in the South Asian nation this year. This was […]
Read More...US priest arrested in Philippines for sex abuse
December 26, 2018 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
An American priest working in the central Philippines was arrested on Dec. 5 for allegedly sexually abusing dozens of boys over the last four decades. Philippine police and immigration officials and U.S. Homeland Security agents arrested Father Kenneth Bernard Hendricks, 78, inside the Catholic church in Naval, a town in Biliran province. The U.S. District Court of […]
Read More...American priest nabbed over rape charges
December 26, 2018 · By RONALD O. REYES for www.sunstar.com.ph
POLICE nabbed on Wednesday, December 5, American priest Kenneth Bernard Pius Hendricks in Naval, Biliran over alleged rape charges. Police Superintendent Ma Bella Rentuaya, regional police spokesperson, said Hendricks was arrested around 11 a.m. at the Diocese of Naval by the joint elements of Naval Municipal Police Station led by PO3 Venus Abrigo, under the […]
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