Over 400 sex abuse suits filed in New York as litigation window opens

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 23:11:22 +0000

Over 400 sex abuse suits filed as litigation window opens

ALBANY, N.Y.  – The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals, the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are some of the targets named in a flurry of sex abuse lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York as the state began accepting cases once blocked by the statute of limitations. Hundreds of lawsuits were filed as […]

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In Pampanga, thousands attend Mass for clergymen with sedition raps

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:19:56 +0000

In Pampanga, thousands attend Mass for clergymen with sedition raps

At least 33 Catholic priests, led by San Fernando Archbishop Florentino Lavarias, led a holy Mass expressing solidarity with four bishops and three priests charged with sedition.

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Bishop pleads to Duterte: More blood won’t stop Negros bloodshed

Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 12:57:22 +0000

A top Church leader on Negros Island decried the Duterte administration’s bloodthirsty response to the bloodbath in Negros Oriental province, appealing to President Rodrigo Duterte to abandon plans to declare martial law and instead tread on a path to peace by resuming talks with communist guerrillas.

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‘Oratio Imperata,’ ringing of bells mark urgency of Church plea vs Negros bloodshed

Credit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 11:11:09 +0000

ILOILO CITY—Church bells on Negros Island will start ringing daily at 8 p.m. starting on Sunday (July 28) to call for an end to the bloodshed that is now gripping Negros Oriental province and claimed the lives of at least 13 persons in just five days.

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Church worker slain in Negros Oriental

Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:27:43 +0000

Church worker slain in Negros Oriental

ILOILO CITY–Men riding in tandem on a motorcyle shot dead a 42-year-old worker of the Philippine Independent Church near one of its churches in the town kf Majuyod, Negros Oriental province on Sunday (July 7).

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Youth church group drops board game session, rescue senior citizens from fire

Credit to Author: rrcadio| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:25:13 +0000

Fire, nursing home

The youth group became unexpected heroes when they helped evacuate residents of a nursing home that was in the vicinity of a fire incident.

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Ecija church feeds families of drug suspects slain by cops

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:24:50 +0000

Around 80 families of drug suspects killed during a series of police operations in Nueva Ecija were treated to lunch and were gifted with bags of groceries

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Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 02:05:39 +0000

Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics

VATICAN CITY  — The Vatican issued an official document Monday rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders and insisting on the sexual “complementarity” of men and women to make babies.

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