September, 2019
Oregon Child Sex Ring Uncovered: “They’re Worth $5000 A Night”
September 13, 2019 · By Sean Adl-Tabatabai for newspunch.com
Investigators in Oregon have discovered a massive child sex ring in which children were sold as sex slaves to high ranking pedophiles for as much as $5,000 a night. Curry County residents Genevieve Wilson and Jackalene Antunes say they are working to help child victims of human trafficking in Southern Oregon, with very little help […]
Read More...Sainthood cause officially opens for Filipino boy
September 13, 2019 · By Roy Lagarde for cbcpnews.net
The sainthood cause of a former street child was formally opened Wednesday, nearly seven years after his death. The cause of Darwin Ramos was set in motion by the Diocese of Cubao, the ecclesiastical jurisdiction where he died at age 17 on Sept. 23, 2012. Bishop Honest Ongtioco made the official announcement during Mass Aug. […]
Read More...Church, green groups to press for ‘rights of nature’ law
September 13, 2019 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church and pro-environment groups in the Philippines held a three-day conference to “strategize” a lobby campaign to pass a law to protect the “rights of nature.” The gathering of about 70 church and civil society leaders from July 20-22 reviewed the provisions of a draft bill they plan to submit to the country’s legislators. The bill aims […]
Read More...Pope: ‘Apostolate of prevention’ needed to protect minors from sexual abuse
September 13, 2019 · By Devin Watkins for www.vaticannews.va
Participants in a month-long course held at the Pontifical University of Mexico received an unexpected surprise. In the middle of their third week learning methods to prevent the sexual abuse of minors, Pope Francis sent a video message encouraging their efforts to protect the Church’s vulnerable members. The course is important because all minors need […]
Read More...The Alleged Last Living Relative Of Adolf Hitler Was Just Convicted Of Pedophilia
September 13, 2019 · By Marco Margaritoff for allthatsinteresting.com
While the lineage Romano-Lukas Hitler claimed remains in dispute, his advances on a 13-year-old girl have officially made him a convicted pedophile. He firmly rejects what he did was wrong. A self-proclaimed relative of Adolf Hitler has just been convicted of pedophilia for kissing a 13-year-old girl. According to Bild, the unemployed 69-year-old responded to an advert for […]
Read More...Violence Follows Pro-Independence Protests In Indonesia’s Papua Region
September 12, 2019 · By ASHLEY WESTERMAN for www.npr.org
Pro-independence protests in Indonesia’s restive Papua and West Papua provinces have resulted in violence for a second week, according to activists and reports from the area, where most Internet access has been shut down since Aug. 21. Conflicting reports of deaths, injuries and arrests have emerged from the region. On Wednesday, police said two protesters […]
Read More...Philippine church workers persevere despite death threats
September 12, 2019 · By UCAN India for m.ucanindia.in
There is no stopping Zara Alvarez, a church worker in the central Philippine province of Negros. Even the threat of death does not faze her. Zara, a mother who loves to explain heaven and hell to her 7-year-old girl, works for the Church-Workers Solidarity group in San Carlos Diocese. Her work brings her to the […]
Read More...Why ‘Flight Shame’ is making people swap planes for trains
September 12, 2019 · By Jocelyn Timperley for www.bbc.com
Last month I stepped into an aeroplane for the first time in five years. I was leaving my home in London and taking a flight across the Atlantic to join my partner in Costa Rica. The last time I flew was in 2014, while living in Bordeaux, France. Getting to my sister’s hen party in […]
Read More...Security still tight at Philippine church despite low threat level
September 11, 2019 · By ucanews.com reporter, Pangasinan for www.ucanews.com
Security forces remain on guard at a Catholic shrine in the northern Philippines despite authorities lowering a security alert that was issued earlier following a terrorist threat against places of worship. Policemen and soldiers could still be seen on Aug. 20 at the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Manaoag, in Pangasinan province […]
Read More...George Pell: The backlash to cardinal’s sexual abuse conviction
September 11, 2019 · By Sharon Verghis for www.bbc.com
Cardinal George Pell is awaiting sentencing for sexually abusing two boys in 1996. The verdict, which he is appealing against, has stunned and divided Australia in the past week. It has sparked strong reactions from the cardinal’s most prominent supporters, some of whom have cast doubt on his conviction in a wider attack on Australia’s […]
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