January, 2020
Pope Francis condemns child sex abuse and Church cover-ups
January 23, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Pope Francis has condemned the “atrocities” of child sex abuse and clerical cover-ups in a letter to the world’s 1.2bn Roman Catholics. The letter to “the People of God” calls for an end to the “culture of death” in the Church, addresses failures to deal with abuse and asks for forgiveness. Last week a grand jury […]
Read More...‘Sextortion’ suspects deny involvement in Daniel Perry case
January 23, 2020 · By Angus Crawford, BBC News for www.bbc.com
Two Filipino men suspected of blackmailing a UK teenager who took his own life have been traced by the BBC. Daniel Perry from Dunfermline was 17 when he fell from the Forth Bridge in July 2013. He had been the victim of online sexual blackmail or “sextortion” by a group operating from the Philippines, after […]
Read More...People urgently fleeing climate crisis cannot be sent home, UN rules
January 21, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
People fleeing immediate danger due to the climate crisis cannot be forced to return home, the UN has said. The landmark ruling centres on the case of Ioane Teitiota, whose home – the Pacific Island of Kiribati – is threatened by rising sea levels. Mr Teitiota applied for protection in New Zealand in 2013. […]
Read More...‘Philippines one of the worst countries to live for minimum wage earners’
January 20, 2020 · By Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com) for www.philstar.com
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is one of the worst countries to live for minimum wage earners, a new report by e-commerce firm Picodi released Tuesday found. In January 2020, monthly net pay received by minimum wage earners in the Philippines stood at P5,922, 10.2% higher than P5,376 they got in the same month last year. That […]
Read More...Man jailed for life as UK’s most prolific rapist
January 20, 2020 · By AFP for gulfnews.com
London: An Indonesian student described as Britain’s most prolific rapist was jailed for life on Monday for a catalogue of sex offences on unsuspecting men he drugged and assaulted. Manchester Crown Court in northwest England was told Reynhard Sinaga may have attacked as many as 195 men, luring them into his flat with the offer of […]
Read More...Woman jailed for posing as teenage boy to sexually assault young girls
January 20, 2020 · By RTE for www.rte.ie
A woman in Britain who duped girls as young as 13 into thinking she was a teenage boy so she could sexually assault them has been jailed for eight years. Gemma Watts, 21, hid her long hair beneath a baseball cap and wore jogging bottoms and a hoodie as part of her disguise as 16-year-old “Jake Waton”. […]
Read More...Call for peace as Philippines orders Iraq evacuation
January 20, 2020 · By Joe Torres, Manila for www.ucanews.org
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, incoming head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, has issued a call for peace amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran.The outgoing Manila prelate highlighted the Middle East crisis in his homily during midnight Mass on Jan. 9 in observance of the Philippines’ Feast of the Black […]
Read More...The Dark Side of the Internet
January 20, 2020 ·
The Dark Side of the Internet Fr. Shay Cullen 17 January 2020 It was a hot-blooded crime last December 2019, done with a terrorist and “Jihadist” motivation of anger and hatred, that caused the violent deaths of three US sailors who were shot dead at the Naval Air Station Pensacola. The killer was Mohammed Alshamrani, […]
Read More...Human Rights violations as fighting rages in Rakhine, Myanmar
January 15, 2020 · By Catholic News Service for www.ncronline.org
MANDALAY, MYANMAR — Bishop Alexander Pyone Cho has called for dialogue among all parties as violence escalates in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. His Pyay Diocese in western Myanmar covers troubled Rakhine, which has experienced the worst strife in decades, reported ucanews.org. The 71-year-old prelate said the ongoing fighting has largely impacted civilian lives, with no end in […]
Read More...Healthy habits ‘deliver extra disease-free decade’
January 15, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
Women can gain 10 and men seven years of life free of cancer, heart problems and type-2 diabetes from a healthy lifestyle, a study in the BMJ suggests. They must exercise regularly, drink in moderation only, have a healthy weight and good diet and not smoke. The US research is based on 111,000 people tracked for […]
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