April, 2021

Philippine bishop backs red-tagging bill

Philippine bishop backs red-tagging bill A Catholic bishop in the Philippines has supported the creation of a law that punishes red-tagging or the malicious blacklisting of individuals or organizations critical of the Duterte government as terrorists or communists. Several government officials were criticized for tagging Duterte’s dissenters either as communists or terrorists, or both. Benedictine […]

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Myanmar buries fallen heroes after Bloody Saturday

Myanmar buries fallen heroes after Bloody Saturday While Catholics in Buddhist-majority Myanmar observed Palm Sunday, there were tears and grief as the funerals of dozens of fallen heroes were held in several cities and towns. The people of Myanmar were mourning the deaths of at least 114 people who were killed by security forces on […]

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Vietnamese priest’s crusade against slavery and trafficking in Taiwan

Vietnamese priest’s crusade against slavery and trafficking in Taiwan Father Peter Nguyen Van Hung struggled against poverty, war and life as a refugee before he became the savior of scores of slavery and trafficking victims in Taiwan. For over three decades, the 63-year-old Vietnamese Catholic priest from the Missionary Society of St. Columban has waged a […]

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Polish bishops sanctioned by Vatican over sex abuse cover-up

Polish bishops sanctioned by Vatican over sex abuse cover-up The Vatican has imposed sanctions on two Polish Catholic bishops, who resigned in 2020 after being accused of ignoring sexual abuse by their clergy. In simultaneous statements March 29, the apostolic nunciature in Warsaw said action had been taken against Archbishop Slawoj Glodz of Gdansk and […]

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Philippine hospitals declare full capacity of Covid-19 wards

Philippine hospitals declare full capacity of Covid-19 wards Several hospitals in the Philippines have declared they can no longer accept coronavirus patients because they have exceeded their capacity to take care of them. Catholic-run Cardinal Santos Medical Center advised Covid patients to look for other hospitals because it had reached full capacity. “We advise patients […]

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Priest slams death of quarantine violator in Philippines

Arrested man dies after ‘being made to do excessive exercises as punishment’ Priest slams death of quarantine violator in Philippines A Catholic priest in the Philippines has condemned the death of a Covid-19 curfew violator in Cavite province, south of Manila, after authorities allegedly forced him to do 300 squat exercises that led to him having […]

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Restore Our Earth so We Can Live

Restore Our Earth so We Can Live Shay Cullen 19 April 2021 There is great hope and enthusiasm among the youth for the restoration of the earth celebrating Earth Day on 22 April. They see the environmental destruction in all aspects of our lives- the air we breathe, the forest destruction, the polluted oceans, the […]

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Darkness to the Light

Darkness to the Light The aggressive gurgling, of the coffee percolator spluttering like a tiny squib, Protesting to all the world its suppressed anger like what I feel at the incompetence of the greedy powerful leaders, corrupt as many are, Unwilling or unable to respond with compassion and concern for the millions infected by corona, […]

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Myanmar military’s attacks displace thousands of Karen

Myanmar military’s attacks displace thousands of Karen More than 20,000 people in Myanmar’s Karen state have been forced to flee their homes as the military has continued its airstrikes and ground attacks since late March. The newly displaced people are in dire need of food and are unable to tend their crops or take care […]

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Jesuit university answers Philippine Red Cross Covid call

Jesuit university answers Philippine Red Cross Covid call A Catholic university in the Philippines has accepted a plea from the Red Cross and local officials to use its facilities as isolation units for coronavirus patients in Manila. Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City was answering a call to help a ballooning number of […]

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