December, 2019
18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women
December 17, 2019 · By Janelle Ladiero-Bermido
In commemoration of the 18-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women, the Preda Preventive Education team conducted on Thursday, December 12 a Multi-Disciplinary Training Seminar for 52 beneficiaries of the government’s conditional cash transfer program otherwise known as Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program as well as for solo parents from different villages of Olongapo City. The […]
Read More...The Defenders of Human Rights
December 13, 2019 ·
The Defenders of Human Rights Fr. Shay Cullen December 13, 2019 Weimar, Germany- This is a city in central Germany that has had a glorious history marred by a terrible past. At present, it is a small city where the respect and promotion of human rights are celebrated and rewarded. On International Human Rights Day, […]
Read More...Pope holds historic meeting with Japanese emperor
December 13, 2019 · By Michael Sainsbury - UCAN Tokyo for www.godgossip.org
On a busy final day in Japan, PM Shinzo Abe backs the pope’s call for a world free of nuclear weapons. Pope Francis has revealed more about his lifelong passion for Japan, telling Emperor Naruhito how much his parents cried when he was nine years old in 1945 when they learned about the atomic bombings […]
Read More...Bono of u2, no compromise with Human Rights
December 13, 2019 · By Miriam Grace A. Go for www.rappler.com
The U2 fans in the newsroom never doubted it: Bono, the very political frontman of the phenomenal Irish band, would touch on the issue of human rights violations once in the Philippines. He didn’t disappoint. In a press conference on Tuesday, December 10 – Human Rights Day – a journalist asked what he thought of the […]
Read More...Members of child abuse WhatsApp group arrested in 11 countries
December 13, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Spanish police say 33 people have been arrested globally in connection with a WhatsApp group for images of child sex abuse and other violent content. The many “extreme” images shared in the group had been “normalised by most of its members”, the force said. Arrests were made in 11 different countries across three continents, but […]
Read More...Philippine church leaders welcome Duterte’s call for peace
December 13, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila, Philippines for www.cbcplaiko.org
Joe Torres, Manila, Philippines December 9, 2019 An ecumenical church group in the Philippines has welcomed last week’s call by President Rodrigo Duterte to try and revive peace talks with rebels to finally end half a century of communist insurgency. In a joint statement, Catholic and Protestant leaders said they “welcomed and celebrated” the president’s […]
Read More...71st International Human Rights Day | Preda Foundation, Inc.
December 11, 2019 ·
On the Occasion of the 71st International Human Rights Day last 10 December 2019 Fr Shay Cullen, founder of the Preda Foundation, was invited to the German City of Weimar that gives the Weimar Human Rights Award annually “to those fighting for freedom and equality, the prevention of genocide, the right to free speech, and […]
Read More...Cardinal Tagle is the new Prefect of Propaganda Fide
December 11, 2019 · By LUIS ANTONIO GOKIM TAGLE for www.vaticannews.va
The Cardinal Archbishop of Manila, Luis Antonio Tagle is the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The appointment by Pope Francis was announced on Sunday 8 December. The current Prefect, Cardinal Fernando Filoni, assumes the post of Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in place of Cardinal Edwin Frederick […]
Read More...Filipino youth light lanterns to call for climate justice
December 10, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.org
Hundreds of young people carrying Christmas lanterns have marched in Manila to call on the government to hold major carbon emitters accountable for pollution. The event was held to coincide with a United Nations Climate Change Conference that kicked off in Madrid, Spain, on Dec. 2. “We are fed up with the willful ignorance of […]
Read More...Elderly Filipino nun charged with perjury posts bail
December 10, 2019 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.org
An 80-year-old Filipino missionary nun whose arrest has been ordered by a Manila court for alleged perjury has avoided jail by posting bail. Human rights lawyers accompanied Sister Elenita Belardo of the Religious of the Good Shepherd congregation when she went to court to apply for bail on Dec. 6. The nun, who used to head […]
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