March, 2020
Duterte extends Manila lockdown across Luzon
March 18, 2020 · By Joseph Peter Calleja, Manila for www.ucanews.com
A Jesuit priest in the Philippines has appealed to the public for help in providing transport for health workers hit by a suspension to the transport network on the country’s main and most populous island. President Rodrigo Duterte has placed the whole of Luzon including the National Capital Region (NCR) under “enhanced lockdown” and canceled […]
Read More...The Invisible Enemy: An Unseen Virus and Sexual Abuse
March 17, 2020 ·
The Invisible Enemy: An Unseen Virus and Sexual Abuse Fr. Shay Cullen 13 March 2020 Think about it. It is amazing that one tiny, invisible smart virus, a product of evolutionary processes, still mutating and changing its profile, can avoid detection and spread itself far and wide with impunity. It is able to bring the […]
Read More...Minorities fear for Malaysia’s future
March 17, 2020 · By Michael Sainsbury, Malaysia for www.ucanews.com
The emergence of the hardline Islamist party PAS as part of conservative Muslim Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s new coalition government is most unpopular with Malaysia’s minorities. Catholics account for 3.68 percent or about one million people in a nation where 60 percent of people are Muslim. Catholicism is only pipped by Hinduism (6.3 percent) in terms […]
Read More...One party rule: disaster for Cambodia’s poor and economy
March 17, 2020 · By Luke Hunt, Cambodia for www.ucanews.com
When the Europeans decided to slice US$1 billion worth of trade preferences off Cambodian exports in response to a sharp deterioration in human rights and democratic values, Prime Minister Hun Sen was as defiant as he was cavalier. Never shy on the international stage and always one to take advantage of the tools at hand, […]
Read More...Cardinal Tagle least political of all
March 17, 2020 · By Joseph Peter Calleja, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Church leaders in the Philippines have hit back at President Rodrigo Duterte’s “ludicrous” claim that Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle was removed as the archbishop of Manila because Pope Francis was angry with the cardinal’s involvement in politics. “Unbelievably ludicrous,” Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Caloocan, vice-president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), […]
Read More...Pakistan Zainab murder: New law aims to catch child abusers
March 17, 2020 · By M Ilyas Khan for www.bbc.com
Pakistan’s parliament has passed a new bill against child abuse, two years after the murder of a seven-year-old sparked deadly riots and public debate. The Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Bill is named after Zainab Ansari, whose raped body was found in 2018. The legislation provides for a dedicated agency to respond more quickly when […]
Read More...Abuses against women are a sin, Philippine bishop says
March 16, 2020 · By UCA News reporter, Manila for www.ucanews.com
The exploitation of women and other abuses committed against them are “an affront to God,” according to an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Every offense against the dignity of women is a sin, said Bishop Crispin Varquez of Borongan, chairman of the CBCP’s commission on women. He cited sexual abuse, violence, […]
Read More...4 fired, 2 arrested for failing to report child abuse at behavioral school, deputies say
March 11, 2020 ·
VIERA, Fla. – Four Devereux employees were fired immediately when a case of child abuse was reported not by the staffers, by the child himself, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators said the boy at the Viera behavioral campus told his counselor that 25-year-old Marcus DeFreitas came into his room and beat him up […]
Read More...Former Trinity College Colac teacher Kevin Myers jailed for child sexual abuse, current principal praises victims’ bravery
March 11, 2020 · By Nicole Mills and Steven Schubert for www.abc.net.au
The principal of a Catholic school in country Victoria has praised the “unbelievably courageous” child sexual abuse survivors who brought a former teacher to justice for his crimes. Trinity College Colac principal Paul Clohesy attended the court hearings of former teacher Kevin Wilmore Myers, who pleaded guilty to 12 charges involving nine victims spanning from […]
Read More...UN issues scathing indictment of Iran’s human rights violations
March 11, 2020 · By Benjamin Weinthal for www.msn.com
The newly released U.N. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran savaged Tehran’s failure to adhere to basic human rights norms. Javaid Rehman, the U.N. Rapporteur who released his report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, said: “Individuals who have called for […]
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