There is a ceasefire finally in effect in the Gaza Strip, where Israel launched a horrific military campaign in response to attacks on the country’s south on October 7, 2023. On that day, Hamas fighters and their fellow militants assaulted Israeli settlements and fortified military outposts. They killed around 1,200 people, and over 251 others…
At a United Nations high-level meeting in New York, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher of the Vatican said “technology is being used to exacerbate certain forms of abuse and violence,” adding that the gravity of the violence and abuse against women and children extended beyond sexual exploitation and trafficking. That technology he spoke of is the…
A hospital is supposed to be one of the safest places to go to amid armed conflict, like the war Israel is waging against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. However, there is strong evidence that Israeli forces are deliberately killing civilians, including women, children and journalists, in and around hospitals. On August 25, Israeli forces…
The Philippines has suffered damaging floods despite the billions of pesos paid to contractors for hundreds of flood control projects, mostly in Bulacan province. The Senate has uncovered fake projects, overcosting and underperformance by contractors. Some senators claim in recent hearings that corruption is so widespread. Investigators cannot cope and law enforcement against fraud and…
The news in the Philippines these days is focused on impeachment, changing the Constitution, and other mundane political matters. The public, Congress and government agencies are far from addressing the needs of children who are sexually and physically abused by relatives, human traffickers and online predators, and the seeming social acceptance that allows the abuse…
The hope and dream of the late Pope Francis was to reform the Catholic Church and make it a synodal Church at every level, where everyone — laypeople, priests and bishops — are considered equal before God and Jesus of Nazareth, working together, sharing thoughts, listening and learning from one another, and participating humbly in…
The world lacks strong and outspoken leaders who can forcefully take to task the Israeli government and what its forces are doing in the Gaza Strip right now: killing the Palestinian civilians there through violence or starvation — a move that many have condemned as genocide. As many as 111 humanitarian organisations around the world…
Is there true Christianity in the Philippines? Philippines is a nation full of kind, generous, resilient and long-suffering people who, for centuries, have been misled by and burdened with the corruption and injustice committed by dynastic families. The Spanish colonisers brought with them a version of ‘Christianity’ that fell far short of what Jesus…
Children in the Gaza Strip are the first and most affected victims of a war aimed at wiping out the Palestinians from that territory. The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has said more than 15,000 children in Gaza have been killed, over 34,000 injured, and nearly 1 million displaced. There’s no other place in the…
For most parents, one of their greatest worries is that they could lose their children, in mind and soul, to sex predators online who lure them into dangerous and unhealthy relationships. They contact these children on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and secretly groom them for illegal sexual activities. When worried parents see…