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A year on from lockdown, India reports worst daily rise in...
With the biggest rise in cases since early November, India's total virus infection has surpassed 11.65 million
Hong Kong democracy activists set to return from China after jail...
During detention in Shenzhen, mainland authorities denied their families and lawyers access
Catholic bishop questions ‘lockdown’ of Manila churches during Holy Week
Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan said churches are not closing but are "prohibited from holding ‘public religious gatherings’”
Church people stand by slain tribal leader in northern Philippines
Church groups say the killings of tribal people was “an attempt to silence" them in their fight against the mega-dam project
Pope Francis hits ‘mafia’ for exploiting COVID-19 pandemic
Italian police say crime clans are using the pandemic to buy favor with poor families facing financial ruin, offering loans and food
Pope Francis declares Bulacan’s La Purisima Concepcion Church as minor basilica
The church is home to the image of La Purisima Concepcion de Santa Maria, which received canonical coronation on February 1, 2020
Watch: ‘Kain, Ligo…’ ‘Up Close’ with Father Flaviano ‘Flavie’ Villanueva, SVD
Joe Torres is ‘Up Close' with Father Flaviano Villanueva, SVD, on his mission and projects to help poor people in the streets of Manila
Former Caritas Philippines head raises alarm over military ‘intimidation’
Father Edwin Gariguez, social action director of the Vicariate of Calapan, said he has been receiving “unwanted meetings” from military men
Saving the forests, saving the planet
Forests are of vital importance to the well-being of all creatures, the natural world and especially humankind. They absorb most of the damaging CO2...
Cilapulapu and the triumph of defiance
The battle in Mactan wasn’t so much a paradigm of class struggle but a show of force between two established and wealthy dominions
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