Tag: Human rights

Residents and church groups in Pakil, Philippines protest dam project threatening Sierra Madre forests and local livelihoods

Bishop Alminaza, long targeted by red-tagging, rises to lead Caritas Philippines in a pivotal Church leadership shift

Rights groups and Indigenous advocates demand the repeal of the Anti-Terror Law, citing its use to silence dissent and activism

Catholic prelate joins global faith leaders in Rome to call for justice, peace, and protection of Filipino communities

Delayed justice deepens trauma for child abuse victims; calls grow for children's courts and urgent judicial reforms in Philippines

As a proud trans man practicing his priesthood with the IFI, he witnessed the church’s affirming stance on gender equality

Pope Leo XIV condemns the use of hunger as a weapon of war and expenditures on arms production instead of eradicating poverty

A Filipino fishers’ group has rejected a U.S. proposal to build an arms depot in Subic, citing threats to sovereignty and livelihood

Vatican urges solidarity with seafarers, calling them “pilgrims of hope” in Sea Sunday message amid rising abandonment cases

“We reject the proposals for renewed calls for the return [of the] death penalty especially in calls to protect people from illegal drugs"