April, 2019
Viewpoint : How likely is an Assange conviction in US?
April 25, 2019 · By Jonathan Turley for www.bbc.com
The arrest and expected extradition of Julian Assange has set into motion what could prove to be the most important free speech and free press case in our history. Or not. Assange has been charged with a single count of participating in the hacking of intelligence computers with Chelsea Manning to reveal controversial intelligence operations […]
Read More...One in 10 child asthma cases ‘linked to traffic pollution’
April 24, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Four million cases of childhood asthma could be caused by air pollution from traffic – around 13% of those diagnosed each year, a global study suggests. Current pollution guidelines may need changing because most children developing asthma live in areas within recommended levels, the authors say. South Korea has the highest burden of pollution-related asthma, […]
Read More...Do not be afraid
April 24, 2019 · By Edita T. Burgos, Manila for www.ucanews.com
In the face of injustice, Filipino families of the disappeared need to be like prophets and seek out and proclaim the truth I presented a five-minute video to a group of religious men and women during their Lenten recollection. The video showed the dilemma of a young girl facing the challenge of an enforced disappearance […]
Read More...Extinction Rebellion: Climate change protesters at Natural History Museum
April 24, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Extinction Rebellion activists took over part of the Natural History Museum as the climate change protest entered its second week. About 100 people lay down under the blue whale skeleton at about 14:15 BST. It comes as more than 1,000 people have been arrested since the protests began in central London a week ago. The […]
Read More...China’s ‘genocide’ unlike any other
April 23, 2019 · By Benedict Rogers for www.ucanews.com
China may be committing what one expert, journalist Ethan Gutmann, author of The Slaughter, describes as “a form of genocide cloaked in medical scrubs.” Or what British MP Fiona Bruce, chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, described in a debate in parliament last week as “a crime against humanity and … potentially nothing less […]
Read More...Amid Manila’s mad war, poor families live ‘agape’
April 23, 2019 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Hope isn’t a word normally associated with Payatas, a sprawling slum 21 kilometers northeast of the seat of power in Manila and just three kilometers away from Congress. There, 5,000 of the Philippine capital’s poorest families crowd around mountains of trash, also the source of their livelihood. About 19 years ago, at least 200 people […]
Read More...Top Philippine court orders release of drug war death files
April 22, 2019 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Human rights groups welcomed a Philippine Supreme Court order calling for the release of documents related to the killings of thousands of suspected drug users and dealers over the past three years. The court on April 2 ordered the solicitor-general to provide police reports to two human rights groups seeking the release of the documents. […]
Read More...Filipinos reminded in Holy Week to reflect on Jesus’ humility
April 22, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila, and Charlie Saceda, Cebu for www.ucanews.com
Church leaders in the Philippines have reminded the Catholic faithful to spend Holy Week, a public holiday in the predominantly Catholic country, “to know and understand deeply the humble Messiah.” Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila urged Filipinos to spend the week not only to have a break from work but also to reflect on […]
Read More...Bishops’ summit on sex abuse: An Asian perspective
April 22, 2019 · By Virginia Saldanha, Mumbai for www.ucanews.com
The voices of survivors and advocates rallying against clerical sex abuse echoed around newsrooms and living rooms the world over when bishops met in Rome from Feb. 18-26, making it a hallowed ground of the wounded. The 190 bishops at the summit heard the testimonies of a few survivors, live-streamed into the hall. The organizing committee […]
Read More...When We Celebrate Easter
April 19, 2019 ·
When We Celebrate Easter Fr.Shay Cullen 19 April, 2019 Easter is the time we recall the tragic events of two thousand and nineteen years ago when a Jew, a man from Palestine, was spied upon, betrayed, persecuted, falsely charged, vilified, abandoned and arrested. It started in a mock trial that handed down the death penalty […]
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