February, 2020
French writer ‘regrets’ his pedophile sex tourism in Asia
February 10, 2020 · By ANTHONY LUCAS AND FIACHRA GIBBONS for www.thejakartapost.com
French writer Gabriel Matzneff said in an interview Wednesday that he “regrets” his trips to Asia to have sex with children, claiming that at the time “no one ever said it was a crime”. The veteran essayist is being investigated by French police after a leading French publishing executive detailed how he abused her when […]
Read More...Philippine bishops aim to protect minors from predatory priests
February 10, 2020 · By UCA News reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
The Catholic bishops of the Philippines are creating an office that aims to ensure the safety of minors and vulnerable people. The Office on the Protection of Minors will help dioceses to address cases of clergy sex abuse by providing canon law experts and other professionals. A bishop, to be elected during a meeting of prelates […]
Read More...Closure of sanctuary for displaced Philippine tribe draws flak
February 7, 2020 · By UCA News reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
An international human rights coalition has condemned a government order to close a Protestant church compound in the southern Philippines that has been serving as a refuge for displaced tribal people.The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines called the move “an attack” on the already displaced tribal people and “outright harassment of church workers.” […]
Read More...International Court of Justice rules in favor of Rohingya
February 7, 2020 · By UCA News reporter for www.ucanews.com
The United Nations’ highest court today ordered measures to prevent the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The decision comes despite de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi defending her country against the accusations in person last month. In a momentous and unanimous decision by a panel of 17 judges, the International Court of Justice […]
Read More...THE LONG WAR AGAINST SLAVERY
February 7, 2020 · By Casey Cep for www.newyorker.com
Here’s to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies,” Samuel Johnson once toasted at an Oxford dinner party, or so James Boswell claims. The veracity of Boswell’s biography—including its representation of Johnson’s position on slavery—has long been contested. In the course of more than a thousand pages, little mention is made of […]
Read More...Cardinal Tagle bids farewell to his hometown Imus
February 7, 2020 · By Roy Lagarde/CBCP for www.ndbcnews.com.ph
IMUS, Cavite – Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle bid farewell to his hometown of Imus in Cavite on Monday before his expected transfer to Rome. In a Mass at Our Lady of the Pillar, he thanked all those who attended the celebration, including some public officials. “This kind of celebration gives me strength,” a teary-eyed Cardinal […]
Read More...Human Slavery, Trafficked into Bondage
February 7, 2020 ·
Human Slavery, Trafficked into Bondage Fr. Shay Cullen 7 February 2020 The enslavement of innocent youth into sex trafficking is almost always by means of human contact through pimps and human traffickers. They offer money and inducement. The victims are seduced by peer group members and groomed on social media. Although forbidden by law, local […]
Read More...Caged like animals: Inside Bangkok’s notorious IDC
February 6, 2020 · By UCA News reporter, Hong Kong for www.ucanews.com
Bangkok’s Immigration Detention Center (IDC) has long been notorious for the squalid and overcrowded conditions in which inmates — including children, women and the elderly — have been forced to languish for months and even years on end. Yet surreptitiously taken photographs obtained by UCA News paint an even darker picture of inmates’ plight inside […]
Read More...‘If a child can talk, it can have sex’ Sick pervert loses appeal against travel ban
February 6, 2020 · By LAURA MOWAT for www.express.co.uk
A SHAMELESS paeodophile who declared “if a child is old enough to talk, it’s old enough to have sex” has lost his appeal against a ban restricting him from visiting countries where the age of consent is lower than the UK’s. Police have described Jason Leonard, 37, as “one of the most dangerous” registered sex […]
Read More...Young offenders in ‘harmful solitary confinement’ in England and Wales
February 5, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A boy at a young offenders institution was left to lie on a mattress on the floor of a “filthy” cell for more than 22 hours a day, a report has revealed. The chief inspector of prisons in England and Wales, Peter Clarke, said a practice of separating children from their peers at YOIs amounted […]
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