Faith-based group provides typhoon victims with storm-proof housing Mark Saludes, Eastern Samar Philippines April 24, 2017 When Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the central Philippines in 2013, Catalina Badocdoc lost everything except for an image of the Child Jesus and copies of the Bible. Strong winds and rain blew away her…
“This Sunday Invites Us to Take Up Forcefully the Grace that Comes from God’s Mercy” APRIL 23, 2017 | ZENIT STAFF | ANGELUS/REGINA COELI After the Regina Coeli Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning! Every Sunday we remember the Lord Jesus’ Resurrection, but in this season after Easter, this Sunday has an even…
Easter message by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, president of Caritas Internationalis My family began with the migration of a child. My maternal grandfather was born in China. His mother was very poor so she sent her son with a relative who travelled to the Philippines – and that’s where…
Where are your old phones? Do they go back to the mountains, whence they came? Do we reuse the minerals that may have displaced communities in order to be obtained? Tell us your E-Scrap story. Ekstraktib, derived from the English word extractive, means something that is capable or tending toward…
Dear Friends: Benham Rise is one of the most exciting things that have happened in our country recently. Imagine, an area approximately the size of Luzon added to our territory! it is supposed to be rich in oil and natural gas but again, as if the Lord is teasing us,…
Focus Web 17 April 2017 To mark the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles, Focus on the Global South releases this special edition that puts together articles on issues that small farmers and peasants continue to face. These pieces also highlight the different forms of resistance that farmers and peasants put…
Father Shay Cullen 06 April 2017 The children of Khan Sheikhoun were the first to suffer as the suspected nerve gas sarin, a deadly, fast-killing agent, caused the children to suffocate their damaged lungs caused racking pain. As they tried to breath with damaged lungs, they started to foam at…
“Uphold democracy, our human rights” In observance of the Holy Week, 3,000 strong- protesters took to penitence their “sorrows” on the status of human rights in the country. The urban poor community members of the Community Organizers Multiversity (COM) trooped to Plaza Miranda on Holy Tuesday morning, April 11, and…
The Regional Assembly of Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas leaders this April discussed the Year of the Parish theme: Forming Basic Ecclesial Communities as Agents sof Communion, Participation and Mission. Held at the Poveda Learning Center Gymnasium on 8 April 2017 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, the event was attended by…
Manila district serves as pilot project in which families are seen as pivotal in recovery of users Buena Bernal, Manila Philippines UCAN March 30, 2017 Shirtless men engage in casual chatter in street corners, mothers cradle their infants in the alleys, while children run around the narrow streets of a village…
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