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Diocese bemoans election cacophony
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (UCAN): The Diocese of Marbel, in Mindanao, the Phlippines called for election candidates to stop or turn down their “ear-splitting” campaign jingles in the run-up to national and local mid-term elections on May 13. |
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Church charity steps in to aid disaster-hit Filipino farmers
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Carigara (UCAN): It took some time for Rosenda Apay, a 59-year-old farmer, to realise that she was finally tilling her own farm. It took more than 16 years of lobbying and asserting her rights to have land. |
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Pope names two new bishops for dioceses in southern Philippines
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MANILA (UCAN): Pope Francis named Father Cosme Almedilla and Claretian Father Leo Dalmao as the new bishops for Butuan, Agusan del Norte province, and Isabela, Basilan province, in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao. |
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Bishop demands probe into killing of Philippine farmers
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MANILA (UCAN): “We demand a quick investigation into this and appeal to the authorities to restore peace and order,” Bishop Gerardo Alminaza of San Carlos, Negros Oriental, the Philippines, said as he demanded an investigation into the killings of 14 farmers, one of whom was reportedly a Church worker, during three police operations in the central Philippine province on March 30. |
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Complaint filed against Xi Jinping for crimes against humanity
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MANILA (UCAN): Former Philippine Foreign Affairs secretary, Albert del Rosario, and former Ombudsman, Conchita Carpio-Morales, along with a group of Filipino fishermen, filed a complaint—formally called a communication—before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Chinese President Xi Jinping for alleged “crimes against humanity” on March 15. |
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Filipino sex abuse victims to sue Church in United States
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TACLOBAN (UCAN): McDonald Worley, a lawyer from Texas, the United States (US), said that testimonies and evidence are being gathered for the filing of a civil suit against Father Kenneth Hendricks and a “Catholic church in Ohio” for damages. |
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Philippine Church leaders move to end charging fees
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MANILA (UCAN): More Philippine bishops are taking steps to remove fees for sacraments and other services. The latest to make the move is Bishop Ruperto Santos of Balanga, who issued a circular on March 12 ordering the removal of fees for funeral Masses and blessings in his diocese. Priests were told not to charge fees for Masses even in private memorial chapels. |
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Manila prays for rain
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MANILA (UCAN): “We ask the Lord to hasten to send the rain we badly need ... so that damage to crops and other livelihoods and an impending water shortage may be averted,” Luis Cardinal Tagle of Manila, said as he called on people to pray for rain as about 6.8 million people in the Philippine capital and nearby areas began to feel the effects of a water shortage in mid-March. |
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Mindanao faith groups seek to tackle emerging crises
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DAVAO CITY (UCAN): Faith groups in the southern Philippines met on March 12 to coordinate efforts to address what they described as emerging humanitarian issues in Mindanao. |
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International law groups decry killings of Philippine lawyers
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MANILA (UCAN): At a colloquium held in Manila, the Philippines, in mid-March, law groups from the United States of America and several European and Asian countries decried a reported rise in the number of attacks on lawyers and judges in the country in recent years in a report on the killings of legal profession members. |
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