Tag: Human rights

Church leader urges wider democratic space at EDSA anniversary, warning against restrictions on peaceful assembly and remembrance

Philippine Church launches Lenten campaign urging structural change, confronting normalized injustice beyond traditional charity, almsgiving

Legazpi bishop suspends Catholic school classes in Albay for EDSA@40 march, Mass, and youth civic commemoration

The ICC trial of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is the necessary antidote to this contagion of state-sanctioned murder

Philippine bishops urge civic vigilance, voter education and structural reforms as nation marks four decades after People Power

Duterte faces ICC charges as reflections revisit drug war killings and the Catholic Church’s divided response

A temporary mining suspension intensified demands to end destructive extraction and address long-standing community grievances

Mary Jane Veloso renews her appeal for freedom in a prison letter, urging continued support as her Philippine detention reaches one year

If Church leaders continue to fall short in action as much as in words, injustices in a long-suffering nation will continue to be perpetuated

Rights groups warn that terrorism financing laws are being used to criminalize journalism as Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s case faces continued legal scrutiny