March, 2019
Duterte about-face on priest threats won’t last
March 19, 2019 · By John Nery, Manila for www.ucanews.com
On three consecutive days, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has walked back from his comments wishing violence on Catholic bishops and priests. “Don’t harm the priests. They are not part of politics,” he said on Feb. 24. “But do not kill those bishops and priests. It is not allowed,” he said on Feb. 25. “There will never be […]
Read More...Philippine police offer protection to bishops, priests
March 18, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Philippine authorities have offered protection to Catholic bishops and priests following reports that several church leaders have received death threats in recent weeks. National police chief, Oscar Albayalde, said the offer has been discussed with Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila. “We offered them protection and even threat validation,” said Albayalde, adding that he assured […]
Read More...Bishop appeals to save Filipino woman on Saudi death row
March 18, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A Catholic bishop has called on the Saudi Arabian government “to be merciful” and grant clemency to a young Filipino woman on death row. Last week, the Saudi Court of Appeals upheld a death sentence handed down in 2017 against the unnamed Filipino woman convicted of killing her female employer. “We turn to God in prayers […]
Read More...Cruelty towards flock haunts clergy amid sex abuse crisis
March 18, 2019 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for www.ucanews.com
There is no crime greater than destroying a young, vulnerable soul entrusted to your care through vicious shaming Inday Espina-Varona, Manila Philippines March 4, 2019 About five years ago, a 17-year old girl took her newborn child to church for baptism in the central Philippine city of Cebu. Instead of blessings, a Redemptorist priest heaped […]
Read More...The Culture of Fear and Silence
March 15, 2019 ·
The Culture of Fear and Silence Fr. Shay Cullen 14 March 2019 Twenty young girls, some of them only 14 years of age, were finally rescued from the Victory Hotel that caters to foreign sex tourists in Mabacalat, Pampanga, a few kilometers north of Angeles City by the anti-trafficking police unit in Camp Crame, […]
Read More...Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men.
March 15, 2019 · By Tim Swarens, [email protected] for www.usatoday.com
She was only 15, pregnant and alone on the streets. And in this wounded child, Thompson saw a means to make money. He promised that if she left her small Illinois town with him, he would make her a model. Grasping for hope, she climbed into his truck. But the promise was a lie. Instead, […]
Read More...From harmful fetishes to sex trafficking, Robert Kraft case highlights risks facing Asian women
March 15, 2019 · By Alia E. Dastagir for www.usatoday.com
When New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged with soliciting prostitution at Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, it was billionaire names like his that made headlines. But the more significant story is that of the women whose names we may never know, Chinese immigrants who police believe were lured to America […]
Read More...Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men.
March 15, 2019 · By Tim Swarens for www.usatoday.com
More than 1 million children, according to the International Labour Organization, are exploited each year in the commercial sex trade. IndyStar columnist Tim Swarens, through the support of a Society of Professional Journalists fellowship, spent more than a year investigating a lucrative business where children are abused with low risk to buyers or traffickers, despite tougher laws […]
Read More...The neo-Nazi plot against America is much bigger than we realize
March 15, 2019 · By Vegas Tenold for www.theguardian.com
In the early summer of 2017, US coast guard lieutenant Christopher Hasson had an idea. He had been trying to figure out an effective way of killing billions of people – “almost every last person on Earth” – but found himself coming up against the daunting logistics of such a task. He suspected “a plague […]
Read More...Public School Teacher in Olongapo Charged for Sexual Abuse and Trafficking
March 14, 2019 · By Francisco B. Bermido, Jr. for www.preda.org
Public School Teacher in Olongapo Charged for Sexual Abuse and Trafficking Three male high school students from Olongapo City, assisted by their guardians and by a registered social worker of the Preda Foundation, filed on 12 March 2019 separate complaints for sexual abuse and qualified trafficking in the Olongapo City Prosecutor’s Office against Franco […]
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