Ali Bekhtaoui, Agence France-Presse Posted at Dec 07 2021, news.abs-cbn.com The share of global wealth of the world’s richest people soared at a record pace during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report on inequality showed Tuesday. Since 1995, the slice held by billionaires has risen from one percent to three percent, according to the World Inequality…
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“We as episcopal leaders of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente in Mindanao are very much alarmed that wanton extra judicial killings may fall on our church leaders. God forbid!” they said.
On April 22, 2019, Bernardino Patigas, 72, was gunned down by motorcycle-riding gunmen along the highway of Brgy. Washington, Escalante City, Negros Occidental. Patigas, or “Tatay Toto” to many of his colleagues, was a Sangguniang Panglunsod member in Escalante City. He was running for re-election and was on his way home from an election campaign…
“President Duterte, a fanatic of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, continues to attack the Filipino people through his counter insurgency program Oplan Kapayapaan (OpKap) in full throttle. A trying-hard copycat of Marcos’ martial law, Duterte has also signed the death sentence of poor Filipinos under its war on drugs and counterinsurgency campaign….
Scientists, environmentalists and advocates commemorated the #MarchForScience in the Philippines, May 4, at University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City. Photos and text by Ronalyn V. Olea/ Bulatlat The post March for Science in the Philippines highlights protection of reefs, forests appeared first on Bulatlat.