August, 2019
Statement of Preda on the video “Five girls escape from Fr Shay Cullen’s Preda Foundation & Tell of their Ordeal”
August 16, 2019 ·
Statement of Preda on the video “Five girls escape from Fr Shay Cullen’s Preda Foundation & Tell of their Ordeal” The video was uploaded by one who supports Lilian Sherry Zimmer, dubbed as the World’s Worst Foster Mother https://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Police-hunt-woman-paedophile-…) and who was jailed in the Philippines. Now based in the US, Zimmer is spreading fake […]
Read More...Fr. Shay Cullen’s Reflections: The Attempted Abduction of Jemma
August 16, 2019 ·
The Attempted Abduction of Jemma Fr. Shay Cullen 16 August 2019 It’s a case of child abuse and human trafficking that has caught much media attention. It is being held in the court of Honorable Judge Maria Angelica T. Paras-Quiambao, Regional Trial Court Branch 59, Angeles City, a judge of known integrity. It concerns a […]
Read More...Philippine archdiocese joins battle against killer dengue
August 16, 2019 · By Ronald Reyes, Tacloban for www.ucanews.com
Palo Archdiocese in the central Philippines has declared war against dengue, a mosquito-borne disease that has killed at least 622 people and infected more than 146,000 others across the country since January. In the Eastern Visayas region, which has with 4.4 million inhabitants, dengue cases have exceeded 10,500 with at least 36 deaths. To show […]
Read More...Philippine prelate takes up peacemaker’s mantle
August 16, 2019 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Bishop Gerardo Alminaza’s candid social media posts give a picture of the ups and downs of his days as shepherd to a besieged flock in San Carlos Diocese on the central Philippine island of Negros. The prelate, who has just turned 60, wears a peacekeeper’s heavy mantle. The four million residents of the country’s fourth-largest island are […]
Read More...Stop abusing land, scientists warn
August 16, 2019 · By Roger Harrabin for www.bbc.com
How can the land protect us from climate change? Uncultivated land covered with vegetation protects us from overheating because the plants absorb the warming gas CO2 from the air and fix it in the soil. But the scientists meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, will say the way we farm and grow timber often actually increases emissions […]
Read More...Philippine bishop issues appeal to save ‘last frontier’
August 15, 2019 · By Roy Lagarde, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A Catholic bishop in the central Philippines expressed “deep concern” over a plan to build a coal-fired power plant on the “frontier” island of Palawan. Bishop Socrates Mesiona of Puerto Princesa said the government should reassess the project because of its possible negative impact on the environment. “We appeal for a reconsideration to balance economic progress […]
Read More...Activists back Duterte’s renewable energy order
August 14, 2019 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church and pro-environment groups in the Philippines have called on state agencies and private corporations, including those handling funds of Catholic institutions and religious congregations, to follow a presidential directive to hasten development of renewable energy sources.President Rodrigo Duterte issued the directive to reduce the country’s dependency of coal during his annual address to Congress on July 22. […]
Read More...Fr. Shay Cullen’s Reflections: Justice and Closure for 11-year old Child
August 13, 2019 ·
Justice and Closure for 11-year old Child Fr. Shay Cullen’s Reflections August 13, 2019 She was only 11 years old when Andronico Pino overpowered and raped her. She was terrified and threatened to stay silent and tell no one. In shock and traumatized, the child, call her Anna, was fearful of the threats and told […]
Read More...Philippine Christians, Muslims pray in Marawi’s ruins
August 13, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Marawi for www.ucanews.com
A group of Christians and Muslims held “interfaith prayers” in the ruins of a church and a mosque on July 27 in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, which was devastated by a five-month siege in 2017. The prayers were led by Father Teresito Soganub, parish priest of the Marawi Catholic cathedral who was held hostage by […]
Read More...PHILIPPINES Duterte vetoes anti-endo bill
August 13, 2019 · By Pia Ranada for www.rappler.com
Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo confirmed this on Friday, July 26. “Security of tenure bill vetoed by the President,” Panelo said on Friday morning. The night before, he had also confirmed the veto, only to take it back saying the President was “still studying the pros and cons” of the bill. In his veto message dated Friday, July […]
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