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RELIGIOUS groups and activists held a series of separate rallies across the country on Thursday to condemn human rights violations, political oppression and extrajudicial killings.
THE next head of the Catholic bishops’ conference voiced support for a fund-raising drive to replace vehicles returned by seven bishops at the center of a government lottery office donation scandal.
FATHER Maglore Placer of Boracay Island in the province of Aklan said he returned one million pesos (US$23,255) he accepted from Korean donors following allegations the money came from supporters of casino operators.
ARCHBISHOP Jose Palma, incoming president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), will hold a dialogue with the urban poor in Cebu City on August 7.
DOCTORS of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appealed for prayers as she undergoes surgery on her cervical spine at 7 a.m. on Friday morning to address her pinched nerve.
THE Pontificio Collegio Filippino, home to Catholic Filipino clergy taking post-graduate studies in Rome, is preparing to mark its golden anniversary from October 4 to 9.
PEOPLE attending the World Youth Day (WYD) gathering in Spain in August will get to see Pope Benedict in a new role as a hero in a manga comic book called Habemus Papam.
A RALLY by Christians and Muslims demanding statutory benefits for their dalit members blocked traffic Thursday in the main streets of the capital.
THE National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan), has urged the government to immediately ratify the United Nations international convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families.