Around the Traps (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
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Indigenous solidarity (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
HONG KONG (SE): The annual Filipino Tribal Sunday festival was held in Edinburgh Place in Central on October 29, but this year’s event showed an important expansion, as for the first time a tribal group from Mindanao was also represented. |
Spurious arrest of Church worker in Mindanao (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
MANILA (UCAN): Julito Rivera Otacan, a member of the Rural Missionaries of The Philippines, was arrested together with five indigenous people from the Banwaon group during a raid on a village in the southern Philippines and charged with the illegal possession of firearms and explosives. |
The poor are the majority (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
MANILA (UCAN): If democracy was taken seriously, the poor of the world would get the biggest voice, as they are the majority, but in a world where money counts, their voice is inclined to get swept under the political and economic carpet. |
How many equals a veritable training community? (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
PARIS (SE): Archbishop Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong, the man who carries the responsibility for seminaries in the Vatican at the Congregation for the Clergy, told the bishops of France on November 5 that his office believes seminaries with tiny numbers of students should be closed or merged with others. |
The community of communion (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
Pope Francis referred to All Saints’ Day as a celebration of a family. A priest in Hong Kong echoed a similar sentiment at a Mass on the feast day, calling it a community. |
Clandestine bishop out from shadows (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
LANZHOU (AsiaNews): Bishop Joseph Han Zhihai, who was ordained clandestinely as a bishop in Lanzhou in 2003, has come out of the shadows to be installed by the government as bishop of Lanzhou in northern China. |
Fie on casinos (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
TAIPEI (UCAN): Father Chou Jung, from the parish of the Sacred Heart in Kinmen, a group of islands off the coast of China near the city of Xiamen under the administration of the People’s Republic of China, has linked the anti-corruption campaign being run by the president, Xi Jinping, to a resounding no vote against casinos being built on the island. |
Possession is paramount (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
MANDALAY (UCAN): The government of the Union of Myanmar announced at the end of October that it will harvest the farmlands abandoned by the Rohingya people who have been forced to flee the violence mostly perpetrated by the military in Maungdaw, the Rakhine State, but did not release any plan to compensate the owners or use any of the proceeds to help them. |
Aquino charged with overstepping mark (Saturday, 18 November 2017 )
MANILA (SE): The former president of The Philippines, Noynoy Aquino, was charged on November 8 in the anti-graft court in Manila with overstepping the mark in giving the go ahead to a suspiciously botched security operation in Mamasapano in the lawless province of Maguindanao. |
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