LiCAS.news PhilippinesLIGHT FOR THE VOICELESS

The colorful festivities in Manila’s Chinatown, the oldest in the world, was gone. The dragon and lion dancers were nowhere to be seen.

Whether we like it or not, aware, or unaware, wittingly, or unwittingly, we are part of the problem faced by our world.

In a pastoral letter, the bishops called on the government to immediately launch an independent investigation into the killings in Panay

The president’s generals are all extremely well-educated and there is little doubt of their intelligence, but they share a fatal flaw

We have more than enough resolutions to last another bloody year, so don’t make any this New Year.

These last few weeks of Advent in the Philippines, scenes of horror and injustice have hogged the screens and pages of both traditional and...

This madness in the cultural psyche stems from crazed governance. The madness of fascism seeps down, even to children.

“It is a grave omission to remain silent and passive and allow perpetrators (of killings and rights abuses) to get away”

Nothing has dented the spirit of the country’s human rights defenders

Activists demanded accountability for those who experienced hunger, victims of the 'war on drugs,' and those most affected by the pandemic

The demonstrators denounced what they described as the "systematic human rights abuses" in the Philippines under the Duterte administration

Peace talks with communist rebels have stalled after President Rodrigo Duterte declared the insurgents a terrorist organization in 2018