July, 2019
Young Filipinos join global effort to fight nature’s woes
July 2, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Hundreds of young Filipinos have declared their intention to join a global movement that aims to call attention to environmental problems around the world. On June 22, church leaders in Manila launched the local counterpart of the “Laudato Si’ Generation,” a global youth movement that works to address the impact of climate change. Launched during […]
Read More...To be Christian is to shun selfishness, pope says
July 2, 2019 · By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service for www.ucanews.com
To be part of a Christian community is to belong to a group of believers who shun selfishness and give witness to God’s love by loving and caring for one another, Pope Francis said. While modern society places more importance on “one’s own interests regardless of or even to the detriment of others,” true Christians […]
Read More...Pro-environment bishop of northern Philippines dies
July 2, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Bishop Carlito Cenzon, retired prelate of the northern Philippine city of Baguio, died at the age of 80 in a Manila hospital on June 26. The late prelate is most remembered for fighting to protect a forest reservation near the city from an illegal road project allegedly spearheaded by a former government official. Today, Mount […]
Read More...Sotto refiles bill lowering age of criminal liability
July 1, 2019 · By Aika Rey for www.rappler.com
In refiling the bill, Senate President Vicente Sotto III says the law should be further amended ‘to adapt to changing times’ MANILA, Philippines – Senate President Vicente Sotto III refiled the controversial bill lowering the age of criminal liability on Monday, July 1, after lawmakers failed to pass it in the 17th Congress. Senators, according to seniority, started to […]
Read More...Uncertainty in the mountains as Philippine dam casts shadow
July 1, 2019 · By Sharlene Festin, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A waxing moon floated in the night sky, giving light to a small group of people huddled outside a hut in a hamlet somewhere in the hinterlands of Luzon Island in the Philippines. There was excited talk between sips of coffee. A baby was about to be born and the comadrona, or midwife, had just arrived. […]
Read More...Philippine bishop wants laypeople to administer dioceses
July 1, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A Catholic bishop in the Philippines wants to allow laypeople or nuns to administer dioceses instead of priests. Bishop Francisco de Leon of Antipolo made the proposal when he met with Pope Francis during an ad limina visit by Philippine bishops to Rome last month to report on the state of their dioceses or prelatures. “I think and […]
Read More...Philippine bishop calls for proactive help for migrants
July 1, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A Philippine bishop has called on Catholics to be proactive in helping migrants following the publication of a photograph of the lifeless bodies of migrants on the bank of the Rio Grande. The Salvadorian migrant and his 23-month old daughter died swimming across the river while trying to reach the United States. “No one can […]
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