July, 2019
Duterte passes sexual harassment law
July 31, 2019 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law criminalizing catcalling, wolf-whistling and other forms of public sexual harassment. And the country’s Catholic bishops welcomed it, with a challenge to apply the law to everyone, including the president, considered in many quarters as the country’s chief misogynist, who is fond of making sexist and rape jokes. […]
Read More...Filipino elected first Asian head of Dominican Order
July 31, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A Filipino priest was elected head of the Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominican Order, during the congregation’s general chapter in Vietnam on July 13. Father Gerard Francisco Timoner OP became the 88th master of the 800-year-old mendicant religious order and the first Asian to hold the post. The 51-year-old priest led the Philippine […]
Read More...Church leaders urge Manila to comply with UN rights probe
July 31, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church leaders in Manila have called on the Philippine government to respect a U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution to investigate alleged human rights abuses. A Catholic bishop said that if the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte has nothing to hide, then it should allow the rights body to come and look into the situation. “If the government considers […]
Read More...Are sugary drinks causing cancer?
July 30, 2019 · By James Gallagher for www.bbc.com
Sugary drinks – including fruit juice and fizzy pop – may increase the risk of cancer, French scientists say. The link was suggested by a study, published in the British Medical Journal, that followed more than 100,000 people for five years. The team at Université Sorbonne Paris Cité speculate that the impact of blood sugar levels […]
Read More...‘Dirty energy’ stance of Filipino bishops generates praise
July 30, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
An environmental think-tank in Manila has welcomed a decision by Catholic bishops in the Philippines to halt investing in “dirty energy” sources such as coal.They made the decision during their biannual plenary assembly in Manila last week. The non-government Center for Energy, Ecology and Development (CEED) said the move is a great help to the cause of […]
Read More...Scourge of child rape spreads alarm in Bangladesh
July 30, 2019 · By Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
Grief-stricken Abdus Salam had the internal fortitude to stand at the dais of a police media center in Bangladesh to talk about the shocking rape and murder of his 7-year-old daughter. “I urge the country’s people to stay alert so that your daughters do not fall prey to the brutality my daughter was subjected to,” Salam […]
Read More...How countries voted in UN rights council reso on PHL killings
July 30, 2019 · By GMA News Online for www.gmanetwork.com
The United Nations Human Rights Council will now be investigating drug-related killings under the Duterte administration, after member-countries favoring a probe outnumbered those opposing it and abstaining from it. The 18 countries who voted to adopt the Iceland-led resolution seeking to find out the human rights situation under the term of President Rodrigo Duterte were […]
Read More...Child brides, a cover for cultural pedophilia
July 30, 2019 ·
Father Shay Cullen, Manila International April 4, 2017 From when she was 11-years-old, Jazell was forced to live with an older man of almost 40 years of age. She was treated like his “wife” — living in the house with him, cooking, cleaning, and being sexually abused. Jazell became pregnant at 14 and had a […]
Read More...Philippine bishops to stop investing in ‘dirty energy’
July 26, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Catholic bishops in the Philippines have pledged to pull the plug on investing in “dirty energy” like coal-fired power plants. The decision was made during the prelates’ biannual plenary that ended early this week. Father Edwin Gariguez, executive secretary of the social action arm of the Catholic bishops’ conference, said the bishops would instead place xhurch […]
Read More...Migrants are people, not just a social issue, pope says at Mass
July 26, 2019 · By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service for www.ncronline.org
VATICAN CITY — Christians are called to follow the spirit of the beatitudes by comforting the poor and the oppressed, especially migrants and refugees who are rejected, exploited and left to die, Pope Francis said. The least ones, “who have been thrown away, marginalized, oppressed, discriminated against, abused, exploited, abandoned, poor and suffering” cry out to […]
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