Filipino farmers demand end to rice hoarding and profiteering
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Filipino farmers demand end to rice hoarding and profiteering

MANILA (UCAN): “Based on our data, the total projected demand of rice is 14.5 million…

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Survey on family and migration in Southeast Asia started
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Survey on family and migration in Southeast Asia started

MANILA (AsiaNews): The Scalabrini Migration Centre [SMC], a Philippine-based Catholic institute, started a research project…

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Sri Lankan Church awaits justice four years after Easter bombings
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Sri Lankan Church awaits justice four years after Easter bombings

COLOMBO (UCAN): The Sri Lankan Church organised a 40-kilometre-long human chain on the fourth anniversary…

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Malate church declared important cultural property
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Malate church declared important cultural property

MANILA (UCAN): The 435-year-old Baroque-style Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Our Lady of the Remedies)…

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Bishops decry dispersal, arrest of anti-mining protesters in Philippines
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Bishops decry dispersal, arrest of anti-mining protesters in Philippines

PUERTO PRINCESA (RVA News): Bishop Socrates Mesiona, of the apostolic vicariate of Puerto Princesa, and…

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