The Ever Worsening Consequences of Climate Change

And What We Should Do If We Truly Care About Humanity and the Environment   By increasing our burning of fossil fuels and destruction of forests, we, primarily the industrialized nations, are causing the global mean temperature of Earth to rise year after year, producing Category 5 hurricanes, extreme tornadoes,…

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SaLakYag Kalikasan 2017

Sama-samang sakay, lakad, at layag para sa kalikasan Download invitation to Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas Chair Bishop Broderick Pabillo A nationally synchronized anti-mining action was conceptualized in 2015 and affirmed during the PMPI SOS Conference in Baguio City last January 26-28, 2017. The national activity hopes to integrate a planned…

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Lakbay Buhay Updates

Pirmahan Ang Petisyon #Lakbaybuhay Sa aming mga halal na mga Senador lalo na sina Senador Poe, Binay, Gordon, Zubiri, Honasan, Villar, Recto, Pimentel, Angara, Legarda, at Villanueva, Kami ang mga mamamayang naniniwala na ang parusang bitay ay hindi makatao, illegal, hindi epektibo, at kontra mahirap. Hinihikayat po namin kayong huwag…

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Hungry Children Behind Bars

Shay Cullen 11 May 2107 If ever you were in Metro Manila and went to visit a Bahay Pag-asa, that is a “House of Hope” where children as young as seven to 15 are incarcerated behind bars and mixed with youth up to 17 years of age, you will see…

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Call for Action on Climate Change

While humankind is threatened by climate change, no adequate action is being taken. The scientific communities agrees that life will suffer irreversible changes if temperatures increase of +2°C above pre-industrial period’s temperature. Yet, we are already at +1.6°C and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change will lead us to at…

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German Bishops Conference in Solidarity with CBCP on Philippine Human Rights Situations

Bischofskonferenz Kommission Weltkirche Der Vorsitzende The German Bishops’ Conference President of the Commission for International Church Affairs Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel MdB Auswärtiges Amt Werderscher Markt 1 11017 Berlin Dear Foreign Minister Gabriel, I hereby present to you a request from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines…

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