Tag: President Rodrigo Duterte
Sedition acquittal fuels priest’s resolve to seek justice for drug war...
Due to insufficient evidence, a Quezon City court on Sept. 6 cleared Villanueva and Jesuit Fr. Albert Alejo of sedition charges
Banality of evil
What if evil becomes banal and normal... What if it is clothed in garments of obedience, duty, obligation, purpose, patriotism, or "truth”?
More than a tale of two bishops
The religious in one of Asia’s predominantly Christian countries, the Philippines, may be among the most persecuted in the world.
Gospel non-violence
These prophetic lives, these non-violent resilient “doves”, pose a threat to the powerful “wolves” by their mere survival and existence
Philippine court acquits priests, activists of sedition charges
The court ruled that the prosecution had failed to establish their guilt in the conspiracy to commit sedition case
Lorica, Delos Santos, Baltazar: They learned the truth at 17
The three young men learned the truth at 17. How many more young lives will be wasted by the great mistake called “mistaken identity?”
Spotlight on Cinemalaya: Films on human rights, red-tagging, and extrajudicial killings
“If you destroy my country, I will kill you.”
These are the words of former President Rodrigo Duterte that resonated in the documentary film "Maria"...
Co-existence of Good and Evil
One credible way current leadership can fully differentiate itself from the drug war of the past, is to allow the investigators to probe
Freedom of expression is the people’s right to fight back
Every year, we note there is at least a major case of state censorship or police repression in the arts in the Philippines
Philippine gov’t loses bid to stop ICC probe of Duterte’s drug...
ICC also found that the Philippines had not met its burden of proof to show its investigation would be “unnecessary or disproportionate”