May, 2020
China resumes cross removals as virus subsides
May 7, 2020 · By UCA News reporter for www.ucanews.com
The communist administration in China has started another wave of cross removals as the coronavirus pandemic reportedly subsides on the mainland. In the past two weeks, authorities have removed crosses from the top of two church buildings, sources told UCA News on April 27. They fear more such actions. The removals began as the administration reported the […]
Read More...Is rich-hungry India heading for chaos?
May 7, 2020 · By Nirendra Dev, New Delhi for www.ucanews.com
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The effectiveness of governance lies in the mechanism of delivery. Failure, then, is sure to bring dishonor to the government in power. India’s current situation must worry Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who came to power six years ago promising development and achhey din (good days) to all Indians. When […]
Read More...Record 50.8 million internally displaced, IDMC report says
May 5, 2020 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A record 50.8 million people worldwide are internally displaced due to conflict or disaster, with coronavirus posing a new threat, a report warns. In its annual report, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) says Covid-19 may add further risks to millions of already vulnerable people. Over 45 million have been forced to abandon their homes […]
Read More...Philippines reschedules new semesters due to coronavirus
May 5, 2020 · By Joseph Peter Calleja, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Philippine education authorities say they have been forced to delay reopening schools for the start of the new academic year because of the coronavirus pandemic Elementary and high school classes were due to begin in June but will be put back to August or September, the department said on May 1. Education Secretary Leonor Briones […]
Read More...Slave labor: a disgrace to humanity
May 5, 2020 · By Rock Ronald Rozario, Dhaka for www.ucanews.com
A dreadful, black day passed silently in Bangladesh last week with little to no remembrance, largely because the Covid-19 pandemic has put everything on the back burner. Seven years ago, on April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza garment factory complex collapsed at Savar, an industrial suburb near capital Dhaka. One of the worst industrial disasters in […]
Read More...A SHORT VIDEO MESSAGE FROM PREDA ABOUT CHILDREN AND THE FAIR TRADE DRIED MANGOES
May 5, 2020 ·
Dear friends, Here is a short video message from Father Shay Cullen about the Coronavirus in the Philippines and how you can help the children by buying Preda dried mangos online or in Tescos or Waitrose supermarkets. Your help and support is greatly appreciated. Please share this with your friends and contacts. Forest Feast Website: […]
Read More...THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT
May 4, 2020 ·
Irish Times April 25, 2020 By Fintan O’Toole Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US […]
Read More...Paedophile, 31, is jailed for four years after raping 13-year-old girl as he becomes 35th member of Asian grooming gang to be sentenced to total of 380 years over child sex abuse
May 4, 2020 · By JAMES ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE for www.dailymail.co.uk
A paedophile has become the 35th member of an Asian grooming gang to be jailed as part of a major police investigation. Manzoor Akhtar, 31, has been jailed for four years for raping a young girl he had groomed when she was just 13. Another man, Shaqeel Hussain, 36, has had 12 months add to […]
Read More...Celebrating 83 years of women’s suffrage in the Philippines
May 4, 2020 · By Cathrine Gonzales - Reporter for newsinfo.inquirer.net
MANILA, Philippines — On April 30, 1937, or exactly 83 years back from this day, an overwhelming majority of 447,725 Filipino women voted in a plebiscite in favor of their right to vote in political elections. Since the first national election in 1907 for the Philippine Assembly until the adoption of the 1935 Constitution, only Filipino […]
Read More...DILG welcomes SC move to decongest jails amid virus threat
May 4, 2020 · By GMA News Online for www.gmanetwork.com
The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Saturday welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to decongest overcrowded the jails and prisons in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A Supreme Court official announced Saturday that the high court has freed nearly 10,000 inmates in a bid to decongest that country’s overcrowded jail and prisons facilities. In […]
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