By THE RIGHT REVD ANTONIO N. ABLON Iglesia Filipina Independiente – Europe Chaplaincy Ps 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 Romans 8:26-27 Matt 13:24-43 For a farmer, the answer of the landowner, “Let both of them grow together until the harvest” is very disturbing and is unexpected. Naturally, weeds should be taken away from the…
Human rights watchdog Karapatan sounded alarm over the “increasingly worsening attacks on human rights activists and environmental defenders” amid the looming passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 as the rights group decried the military’s red-tagging of Josephine Parra-Porquia, wife of slain human rights activist Jose Reynaldo “Jory” Porquia, as well as the arrest of…
Philstar.com January 16, 2023 | MANILA, Philippines (Updated 11:37 a.m.) — Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong issued Monday a thinly-veiled threat of legal action against red-taggers as he was once again baselessly accused of being part of the armed underground communist insurgency. Magalong directed his warning to controversial preacher Apollo Quiboloy, former anti-communist task force…
“If they can kill lawyers, then they can practically kill anybody.” Related story: International lawyers’ groups to probe attacks on Filipino counterparts By ALYSSA MAE CLARIN Bulatlat.com MANILA – One lawyer is killed per month. This is how the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) illustrated the escalating attacks against lawyers and judges in the…
(UPDATED) They are mostly members of the ‘politicial structures’ of the communist movement, the people who supposedly serve as militiamen or the local population who supplement the strength of the NPA Published 4:14 PM, February 09, 2018 Updated 7:46 PM, February 09, 2018 MALACANANG VISIT. President Rodrigo Duterte welcome former communist rebels to Malacañang. Presidential…