January, 2024

How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality

How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality The climate crisis may be a collective problem, but its impacts do not fall equally. Women and girls often bear the heaviest burdens. Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, finding existing injustices and amplifying them. Women and girls already grapple with gender inequality, but when extreme weather […]

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BI bars 171 sex offenders from entering PH in 2023

BI bars 171 sex offenders from entering PH in 2023 MANILA – A total of 171 foreigners with records of conviction or involvement in sex offenses have been stopped from entering the country last year, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) reported on Friday. Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the foreigners were turned away pursuant to a provision […]

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Robert Corfield, ex-minister of secretive sect, admits to child sex abuse

Robert Corfield, ex-minister of secretive sect, admits to child sex abuse Robert Corfield, a man who abused a boy in Canada in a secretive Christian church in the 1980s, has spoken publicly about what happened for the first time. He was confronted by the BBC as part of a wider look into claims of child […]

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Vatican convicts priest accused of abuse at papal altar boys’ school

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican appeals court on Tuesday convicted a priest of sexually abusing a fellow student while they were both attending a school for papal altar boys. Partially overturning a first instance ruling from 2021, judges sentenced Father Gabriele Martinelli to two and a half years’ imprisonment, according to a copy of their […]

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The return of the US military to the Philippines

The return of the US military to the Philippines Fr. Shay Cullen  27 January 2024 As soon as China became the second biggest economy in the world after the United States, it was inevitable that China would assert its power and challenge Western trade interests in Southeast Asia. When nations become rich, they tend to […]

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[Under 3 Minutes] Ex-followers expose how Pastor Apollo Quiboloy abused them

 [Under 3 Minutes] Ex-followers expose how Pastor Apollo Quiboloy abused them The survivors testify live or via video recording at a Senate inquiry on Tuesday, January 23 MANILA, Philippines – Former members of the Davao-based church Kingdom of Jesus Christ have testified at the Senate, alleging that they were sexually abused by controversial preacher Apollo Quiboloy. […]

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Sect ‘pastorals,’ including 2 Ukrainians, cry sexual abuse vs Quiboloy

Sect ‘pastorals,’ including 2 Ukrainians, cry sexual abuse vs Quiboloy MANILA, Philippines — Three former members of Apollo Quiboloy’s religious sect, including two Ukrainian women, on Tuesday accused him of serially raping them in a span of several years. Their testimonies before the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality raised similar […]

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Former Child Protection district director Garfield Willoughby Prowse jailed for sexually abusing two children

Former Child Protection district director Garfield Willoughby Prowse jailed for sexually abusing two children A former boss at WA’s Department of Child Protection has been jailed after sexually abusing two children for years. Garfield Willoughby Prowse, 59, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Wednesday, after a jury found him guilty of a dozen […]

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Senate panel orders subpoena for Quiboloy in abuse allegations hearing

Senate panel orders subpoena for Quiboloy in abuse allegations hearing CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – The Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality ordered controversial doomsday preacher Apollo Quiboloy to be subpoenaed after he failed to show up during its hearing on the alleged abuses committed by the Davao-based pastor and his […]

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Senate panel probes Quiboloy, group for trafficking, child abuse

Senate panel probes Quiboloy, group for trafficking, child abuse MANILA, Philippines: The Senate Committee on Women and Children will hold its first public hearing today on the reported large-scale human trafficking, rape, and child abuse within the religious group led by Pastor Apollo Quiboloy. Quiboloy was invited but it was not clear whether he would attend […]

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