Protests over graft in flood control projects rock the Philippines
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Protests over graft in flood control projects rock the Philippines

MANILA (UCAN): Protesters marched on the streets across the Philippines to express their anger after…

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Philippine priest who defied Duterte drug war recipient of Magsayay Prize
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Philippine priest who defied Duterte drug war recipient of Magsayay Prize

MANILA (UCAN): The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation recognised Father Flaviano Antonio Villanueva, of the Society…

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Burn with fire of God’s love, pope says at Mass and lunch with the poor
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Burn with fire of God’s love, pope says at Mass and lunch with the poor

ROME (CNS): Spending the day with the poor on August 17, Pope Leo XIV prayed…

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Monastery that survived Nagasaki atomic blast stands as messenger of peace
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Monastery that survived Nagasaki atomic blast stands as messenger of peace

Eighty years ago two of the world’s deadliest weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,…

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Revisiting Laudato Si’ and its call for ecological conversion
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Revisiting Laudato Si’ and its call for ecological conversion

HONG KONG (SE): In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’, the late Pope Francis’s landmark…

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