Priest embarks on Metro trek to recall lessons of revolution

ACTIVIST priest Robert Reyes began on Wednesday a trek with the poor through the streets of Metro Manila to help remind the people about the lessons of the 1986 bloodless revolution. Reyes took out his newly-restored wooden cart bearing an image of Virgin Mary, which he calls “Kariton ni Maria,” for his 28-hour-long trek from [...]

Bishop wants ban on prostitution

WITH the increasing cases of HIV/AIDS in the country, a Catholic bishop has demanded that prostitution be banned. Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz called on the authorities to look into widespread and covert prostitution as one of the HIV/AIDS “transmission realities.” He called on the government to tackle the root causes of the health problem instead [...]

Govt to continue giving condoms despite strong Church opposition

DESPITE strong opposition from the Catholic Church, the Department of Health declared it would continue giving away condoms to “people who need them.” Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral said the government’s condom distribution program is one of the “very many things that, if we actually do them, is going to reduce remarkably the spread of HIV-AIDS [...]

Cebu archdiocese to release prayer to cope with El Niño

THE Archdiocese of Cebu will release a special prayer, liturgically known as “oratio imperata,” as a way of coping up with the impending El Niño phenomenon. Monsignor Achilles Dakay, spokesperson of the Cebu archdiocese, said they will released the prayer this coming Sunday. The “oratio imperata” is a special prayer for a special intention, besides [...]

Doctor-priest trains Filipinos on herbal medicine to heal poor

CARMELITE of Mary Immaculate Father Aji Sebastian, head of an Indian Christian ashram, is in the Philippines to teach Church and government workers how to use herbal medicine to help the poor who have no access to health care. Aji Sebastian is giving a seminar on Heat Reduction Therapy, which uses five basic herbs in [...]

Christians fleeing Mosul as targeted murders continue

THE Vatican communicated on Wednesday that the Holy Father reacted with “deep sorrow” upon hearing the news of the most recent killings of Christians in Iraq, which reached him while he was on his annual Lenten retreat. The Holy See had urged respect for Iraqi Christians in a January letter to country’s premier, but after [...]

Israeli-Palestinian war of words over religious shrines

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas traded accusations over the former’s decision to include certain Jewish holy sites in the West Bank to its list of national heritage sites. The sites in question are Rachel’s Tomb (Bethlehem) and the Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebron), both of which are also venerated by [...]

Top German bishop quits after drunk-driving arrest

THE head of Germany’s Protestant Church has resigned from her post as the top-ranking Lutheran bishop. Police had caught her driving drunk. The head of the Lutheran Church in Germany, Margot Kaessmann, announced her resignation at a press conference on Wednesday after being pulled over for drunk driving days before. “One of my advisers said [...]

US must broaden view of religion’s role – report

IF the United States is to engage the world in a more effective and meaningful way, it must broaden its view of the role of religion in other countries beyond terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies, a new report concluded. Released Feb. 23 by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, the report offers US diplomats and policymakers [...]

AIDS Council defends condom promotion

THE Philippine National AIDS Council has defended the government promotion of condoms after a bishop’s demand that the health chief be sacked over the affair. “One of the messages in our formation, education and communication materials is the value of mutual monogamy,” Ferchito Avelino, the Council’s director, told UCA News. “The Philippine National Aids Council [...]

Religious group says same problems exist after revolt

THE Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines said the Filipino people are facing the same problems and “the very same enemy” that they toppled during the February 1986 “People Power” revolution. In a statement, the ARMSP said the dreams that the revolution promised never materialized “for the atrocities that the people of 1986 [...]

Priest urges migrants to vote for job creation

THE executive secretary of the bishops’ commission on migrants has called on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to vote on May 10 and convince relatives to elect leaders who will solve the root causes of unemployment. Scalabrini priest Edwin Corros said the commission is not asking only the OFWs to vote, but is also urging them [...]

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