January, 2020
Sister Elen, doing the work of Jesus.
January 15, 2020 ·
Sister Elen, doing the work of Jesus. Those who know Sr. Elen would describe her as a warm, gentle, soft-spoken and calm. Prior to her years serving the rural poor through the RMP, she served as a teacher, counselor, and then a principal of the Maryridge School in Tagaytay during the years of the […]
Read More...Rural Poverty in the Philippines
January 15, 2020 ·
Today, more than ever, we are reminded of hunger all over the country. Imagine those working every day under the heat of the sun growing food for the country. They spend for farm inputs, equipment, labor, land rent, etc. but gets nothing in return due to the discrepancy of what they had spent versus their […]
Read More...The Witness of Martyrs: 29 Missionaries Killed Worldwide in 2019
January 15, 2020 · By ANITA BOURDIN for zenit.org
According to the Vatican’s missionary agency Fides, 29 missionaries were killed in the world in the year 2019: six laymen, two women religious, two men religious, one Permanent Deacon and 18 priests. In Africa, 12 priests were killed, one religious, one nun, one seminarian and one layman (15); in America, six priests were killed and one Permanent […]
Read More...China’s ‘genocide’ unlike any other
January 14, 2020 · By Benedict Rogers for www.ucanews.org
This article was first published on April 4, 2019 China may be committing what one expert, journalist Ethan Gutmann, author of The Slaughter, describes as “a form of genocide cloaked in medical scrubs.” Or what British MP Fiona Bruce, chair of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, described in a debate in parliament last week as […]
Read More...China’s Uyghurs deserve freedom of religion
January 13, 2020 · By Anders Corr for www.ucanews.org
This article was first published on March 14, 2019 China has detained one to three million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in “re-education camps” in Xinjiang. There is an odd parallel between the contemporary architect of these camps, Chen Quanguo, and Zuo Zongtang of the 19th century. Both men fought Muslim rebels and separatism in the […]
Read More...Call for Irish Judge to be impeached.
January 13, 2020 · By John McGuirk for gript.ie
On the 20th of October, 2016, a 59 year old man called John Smith invited a 15 year old girl, who he did not know, into his van on the pretext of asking her for directions. Once she was in his van, he took out his penis and began masturbating in front of her. Later that […]
Read More...Irish government challenged to protect children from “Child Rape holidays”.
January 13, 2020 ·
Open letter to Deputy Caoimhghin O’Caolain SF TD Chair, Joint Committee on Justice and Equality,Ireland Grainne Kenny Preda Ireland board. A cara I am a Board Member of PREDA Foundation who approached the Dail (Parliament) to introduce a ruling on restricting the travel of convicted paedophiles as a means to reducing sex tourism. Indep Deputy Maureen […]
Read More...Should child sex offenders be allowed to travel?
January 13, 2020 · By www.bbc.com for www.bbc.com
Australia has passed tough, “world-first” legislation that will deny passports to about 20,000 people on the national child sex offenders register. The aim is to stop Australians who are planning to abuse children in regions like South East Asia before they even get on a plane. But how will it work, is it fair and […]
Read More...Suspended sentence for possession of extreme child pornography-Irish Judge rules.
January 13, 2020 ·
A Polish national, who pleaded guilty to the possession of 847 images of child pornography including “images of the rape of babies” has been given a three-year jail sentence suspended for two years, at Donegal Town Circuit Court in Ireland Wojciech Odrobina, 10 Canal Drive, Prospect Woods, Longford previouslypleaded guilty to the possession of 847 […]
Read More...Light of peace stronger than darkness of war, says pope
January 10, 2020 · By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service for www.ucanews.org
The light of peace, hope and salvation brought into the world with the birth of Jesus is stronger than the darkness of war and despair, but spreading that light requires the cooperation of every person of goodwill, Pope Francis said in his Christmas address. From the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on a brilliantly […]
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