Growing opposition against Philippine dam project (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
INFANTA (UCAN): Civil society and advocacy groups launched a campaign against construction of the proposed Kaliwa River Dam, south of Philippine capital Manila. |
United Nations to probe drug war killings and human rights violations (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
MANILA (UCAN): The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voted on July 11 to set up an investigation into killings in the Philippines that have been linked to the government’s war on drugs. |
Bangladesh grapples with millions of climate refugees (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
DHAKA (UCAN): Cities in Bangladesh are struggling to cope with an influx of millions of people from rural and coastal areas due to climate change-induced disasters, prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, told international delegates at the opening session of the two-day Dhaka Meeting of the Global Commission on Adaptation in the country’s capital, Dhaka. |
Arrest warrant issued for ultranationalist Myanmese monk (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
MANDALAY (UCAN): On July 9, the Western District Court in commercial hub Yangon, Myanmar, ruled that ultranationalist Buddhist monk, U Wirathu, must come out of hiding within a month to face a charge of sedition. It ordered that an arrest warrant be posted at his monastery in the northern city of Mandalay. |
Crimes against humanity (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
It’s a grim gruesome record of murder, assassination and massacre that we must condemn, denounce and learn from. The man, a leader accused of giving orders to target and kill civilians with impunity, is legendary. He convinced them that they were doing a good thing killing any suspect to save their nation from being destroyed. |
Online passport appointment system launched (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
HONG KONG (SE): Philippine Foreign Affairs secretary, Teodoro Locsin, led the launch of the Passport Online Appointment System in Hong Kong at the Philippine Consulate General in Admiralty on July 14. |
China Bridge: Contradictions at the top? (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
Catholics outside of China are baffled by an apparent contradiction about the religious policy towards the Catholic Church between different departments in the top echelons of the Chinese government. |
Deported to a place they never called home (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
Eight years ago, Buck Billy arrived in Cambodia, a country he had never seen before. Even though it’s where his parents were born, considering the Southeast Asian nation as home hadn’t crossed his mind for a single moment. For him, home was Philadelphia in the United States (US), at least for the first 26 years of his life. |
Philippine authorities order closure of tribal schools (Saturday, 20 July 2019 )
MANILA (UCAN): Education officials in the Philippines ordered the closure of 55 schools catering to the Lumad indigenous in Davao, Mindanao, for allegedly teaching “left-leaning ideologies.” |
Mass Readings - Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Saturday, 13 July 2019 )
JULY 14 – FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME. |
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