Call to allow criticism of North Korea’s human rights violations
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Call to allow criticism of North Korea’s human rights violations

SEOUL (UCAN): Catholics and Protestants in South Korea have voiced support for a movement seeking…

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Only a firing squad could silence José Rizal
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Only a firing squad could silence José Rizal

Mary Aileen D. Bacalso, Manila In the extraordinarily hard times of the coronavirus pandemic, the…

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Sombath Somphone was abducted on a busy street in Vientiane, Laos, in 2012. Photo: UCAN/Radio Free Asia
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From victims to defenders

Edita Tronqued-Burgos  We will never be short of “living heroes” from whom we can draw…

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Twenty died violently for the faith in 2020
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Twenty died violently for the faith in 2020

VATICAN (CNS): Twenty missionaries died violent deaths in 2020 and were witnesses of the gospel,…

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Remembering the desaparecidos of the Philippines
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Remembering the desaparecidos of the Philippines

Mary Aileen D. Bacalso It has been almost eight years since former president, Benigno “Noynoy”…

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