Tag: human rights

VATICAN (CNS): As governments and world leaders struggle to contain the Covid-19 coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, they must also work harder Read more

HEBEI (UCAN): An agreement China and the Vatican signed in September 2018 is nearing the end of its two-year term. Read more

VATICAN (CNS): Humana Communitas’ in the Age of Pandemic, a new, eight-page reflection the Pontifical Academy for Life, notes that Read more

HONG KONG (SE): The Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy released The pastoral conversion of the Parish community in the service Read more

MANILA (UCAN): “This government is criminalising dissent, further suppressing criticism, while at the same time evading accountability in the guise Read more

Verdict against Ressa labelled a sham MANILA (UCAN): Catholic bishops in the Philippines issued an Independence Day rallying cry calling Read more

MANILA (UCAN): “The bill is a glaring attempt to silence critics and destroy any disagreement against the government, and consequently Read more

MANILA (UCAN): The Philippines’ Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People has expressed support for ABS-CBN Corp., the country’s largest Read more

MANILA (Agencies): “The heavens now weep for this blow to the Constitutional guarantee of the freedom of the press,” said Read more

MANILA (SE): The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) called on the government to think of the common good Read more

HONG KONG (SE): Foreign domestic workers have been urged to keep their masks on during gatherings on their days off Read more

HONG KONG (SE): “But for the pandemic, it would not have ended up like this. But I believe my employer Read more

Recent years have not been easy for the Philippines owing to numerous disasters and natural calamities. The past decade witnessed Read more

MANILA (UCAN): “This government is criminalising dissent, further suppressing criticism, while at the same time evading accountability in the guise Read more

VATICAN (SE): Pope Francis turned his thoughts to the victims of child labour during his general audience on June 10, Vatican Read more

HONG KONG (SE): The 122nd anniversary of the declaration of the Philippine Independence was marked by migrant rights groups picketing Read more

Joseph Peter Calleja Former United States (US) president, Woodrow Wilson, once said: “Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has Read more

MANILA (UCAN): The Catholic Education Association of the Philippines (CEAP) released a statement calling on the country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte, Read more

MANILA (UCAN): “This government is criminalising dissent, further suppressing criticism, while at the same time evading accountability in the guise Read more

MANDALAY (UCAN): United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has said conditions are still not conducive for Rohingya Read more

MANILA (CNS): Bishop Broderick Pabillo, apostolic administrator of the archdiocese of Manila, defended a recent pastoral letter issued by the Read more

GENEVA (SE): Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva, renewed Pope Francis’ call Read more

VATICAN (SE): Antagonism and differences “must be overcome through dialogue and a constructive search for peace, ”Pope Francis said after Read more

MANDALAY (UCAN): United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has said conditions are still not conducive for Rohingya Read more

VATICAN  (CNS): Following a 40-minute private meeting in the papal library on December 20, Pope Francis and, the secretary-general of Read more