Tag: human rights
Pope raises status of judges’ group advocating for social justice
VATICAN (CNS): Pope Francis has erected the Pan-American Committee of Judges for Social Rights and…
Indonesians hold rally for compensation despite accusation of sedition
RUTENG (UCAN/RVA News): Police in Catholic-majority Flores Island, Indonesia, summoned two farmers and two local…
Indigenous Catholics welcome condemnation of ‘Doctrine of discovery’
Indigenous Catholics, along with U.S. and Canadian bishops, are welcoming the Vatican’s repudiation of a…
Finding a place for the Church in a savage world
Father Myron J Pereira SJ We all know what a sanctuary is—a sacred space, usually…
Philippines urged to compensate wartime sex slave survivors
MANILA (UCAN): On March 10, lawyers representing Philippine women forced to work as sex slaves…
Killing of governor of Negros Oriental and five others deplored
QUEZON CITY (UCAN): Some 100 members of a Catholic pro-life group in the Philippines, Life…
Much-harassed religious sisters acquitted of perjury charges
MANILA (UCAN): Ten religious sisters—eight from the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, one from the…
