Most Rev. Gilbert Garcera talks about the missionary challenge of the Philippines to Asian and the whole world.
The CBCP Media Office Report was presented to the 95th Bishops’ Plenary Assembly held at the Pope Pius XII Catholic Center in Manila, July 7-8, 2007.
Although the enacting in August of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW) – a major law aiming to end discrimination against women across the archipelago – was well-received in Manila, there remain concerns about whether the legislation will be fully implemented. Mary Joan Guan, executive director of the Centre for Women’s Research, a Manila-based advocacy [...]
Church workers have swung into action with a voter education program ahead of next year’s general election, during which voting will be automated for the first time. More than 45.6 million Filipinos have registered to vote for a president and other national, provincial and local officials in May. Many hope automation will curb the election [...]
Civil society representatives from Southeast Asia’s developing democracies delivered an unequivocal message to the region’s leaders at a summit – they will not succumb to the whims of governments that suppress political and civil liberties at home. They did so by boycotting a carefully choreographed encounter between government leaders and civil society representatives at the [...]
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CHA-AM, THAILAND — Southeast Asian nations inaugurated their first regional human rights commission Friday, a watchdog immediately derided as toothless by activists who walked out of a meeting to protest being snubbed by five of the governments involved. The annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations earlier began inauspiciously when half the bloc’s [...]
The fate of kidnapped Irish missionary priest Michael Sinnott is still unknown two weeks after gunmen took him from his residence in Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur, in the southern Philippines. Catholic Church leaders in Zamboanga del Sur have called on the faithful to hold prayer vigils for the immediate release of Fr. Sinnott who was [...]
When students at Holy Name of Jesus School near West Palm Beach were asked to mail cutouts of a fictional child to a pen pal, they chose mostly friends and relatives. Shannon White sent hers to President Obama. Shannon White was shocked and thrilled to hear back from Pres. Obama after she sent him a [...]
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