September, 2019
Philippine health officials declare polio outbreak
September 25, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Philippine health officials have declared a polio outbreak after a 3-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy reportedly tested positive for the crippling disease, the first cases since 2000 when the country was declared polio-free.Polio, short for poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. The virus is usually spread from person […]
Read More...Minors Found in Police Station Released to Parents, Referred to Bahay Pag-Asa
September 24, 2019 ·
Last 10 September 2019, the Regional Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council (RJJWC), of which the Preda Foundation is a member, conducted a spot inspection of Station 6 of the Philippine National Police, Angeles City. During the spot inspection, the RJJWC members including Dixter Yepes, Preda social worker and interns Yanaika Blaakman and Nicole Hazweld, found […]
Read More...Father Shay Cullen’s Reflections: To be a Good Person
September 24, 2019 ·
To be a Good Person Father Shay Cullen The heart of good living is to be honest, to be a person of integrity, to feel compassion and concern for those worse off than yourself. You need self-discipline and to believe in and respect, as you respect yourself, the rights and dignity of every person. The […]
Read More...Philippine green groups submit ‘final memo’ against carbon producers
September 24, 2019 · By UCAN India for m.ucanindia.in
Philippine environmental groups submitted a “final memorandum” against fossil fuel producers before the country’s Commission on Human Rights ahead of a Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20. In 2015, the activist groups filed a landmark human rights case against 47 energy firms blamed for a large part of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions that have […]
Read More...Church leaders warn Filipinos of martial law ‘horrors’
September 24, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church leaders have called on Filipinos never to forget the “horrors” of martial law, which was imposed across the country almost half a century ago this week.The declaration of martial law by late president Ferdinand Marcos resulted in thousands of human rights abuses. Amnesty International recorded over 100,000 victims, with at least 70,000 people arrested, 34,000 tortured and […]
Read More...Prophetic response to a dictatorship
September 23, 2019 · By Mary Aileen D. Bacalso, Manila for international.la-croix.com
rivilege of the writ of habeas corpus, dissolved Congress, and closed media institutions. Father Ed Gerlock, chaplain of the Federation of Free Farmers, was one of several Catholic priests immediately arrested and thrown into prison after the declaration. He was traveling in the southern region of Mindanao, giving religious recollections, when he was arrested on the […]
Read More...Vatican may try priests on charges related to sex abuse at pre-seminary
September 23, 2019 · By Cindy Wooden for catholicphilly.com
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican City State prosecuting attorney requested an indictment against two priests on charges related to the sexual abuse of boys at a minor seminary located at the Vatican. Following an investigation that began in November 2017, the Vatican prosecuting attorney issued notices Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 requesting that Father […]
Read More...Peace and Climate Justice is Needed to Save the Planet
September 20, 2019 ·
Peace and Climate Justice is Needed to Save the Planet Father Shay Cullen 20 September 2019 The world is afire again, the flames heartbreakingly consume shrubs, trees and forests in Australia, Portugal, Brazil, and recently in California and Siberia and elsewhere too. The world community has reacted in protest to the hundreds of fires burning […]
Read More...Filipino Catholics urged to join ‘Global Climate Strike’
September 20, 2019 · By UCAN India for m.ucanindia.in
Filipino Catholics, especially the youth, should go out in the streets and raise awareness on the need to address what is a “climate emergency.” This was the call issued by environment activist and priest Edwin Gariguez ahead of a “Global Climate Strike” set on Sept. 20. The “Global Climate Strike,” inspired by Swedish teen activist […]
Read More...Low grades for education in the Philippines
September 20, 2019 · By UCAN India for m.ucanindia.in
A leading Jesuit educator in Manila has decried what he described as the sorry state of education in the Philippines, saying “miseducation is systemic.” Jesuit priest Jose Ramon Villarin, president of Ateneo de Manila University, said the country’s institutions “are weak and they can be bought.” He said that it seems development in education depends […]
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