Bishop’s book draws inspiration from Kian

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 21:32:00 +0000

Bishop’s book draws inspiration from Kian

Extrajudicial killings, whose victims included Kian Lloyd delos Santos, a teen from his diocese, moved Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David to put together stories about hope for the third book in his Gospel series.

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‘Feast of joy must also be feast of courage’

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:32:33 +0000

Catholic Church leaders have urged the faithful to avoid the “toxicity” of violence and falsehood and fight the “contagion of violence” as the country reels from a spate of killings amid a growing culture of impunity.

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Amid protests, Palace vows to pursue war on crime

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:22:59 +0000

Malacañang on Monday promised to pursue an unrelenting campaign against illegal drugs, crime, corruption, terrorism and insurgency as activists and militants took to the streets to demand an end to abuses against the people and a lawmaker called President Rodrigo Duterte the “biggest threat to human rights.”

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Bishop: Victims of drug war die ‘without valid grounds’

Bishop: Victims of drug war die ‘without valid grounds’

The head of the country’s biggest Catholic archdiocese expressed full support for a planned Senate probe into the mostly drug-related daily killings in the city and province that have already claimed 198 lives since February.

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Kids being killed in antidrug war unacceptable, says Unicef

Kids being killed in antidrug war unacceptable, says Unicef

Child rights advocates on Tuesday raised concerns over the growing number of minors being killed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, one of the “worrying” situations of children in the Philippines who were being subjected to various forms of violence.

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‘EJK confession’ a joke? Drilon is not laughing

If President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that his only sin was extrajudicial killings was, according to his spokespersons, just a joke, then it’s not funny.

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‘Buy-bust’ killing: Suspect asleep when cops barged in, says sis

Benjamin Villanueva, a suspected drug pusher, was asleep when policemen in civilian clothes and wearing black masks stormed into his housing unit in Tondo, Manila, in the wee hours of Sunday.

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Suspected drug gang member killed, 7 nabbed by Makati cops

An alleged member of a drug-trafficking group — whose leader was on President Duterte’s “narcolist” — was killed by the Makati City police in an operation that ended in neighboring Pasig City on Tuesday.

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