*Prepared by: Renato ‘Ka Rene” Magtubo, Spokesperson, Nagkaisa! Labor Coalition; National Chairperson, Partido Manggagawa (PM); Co-Chair for Labor, Church-Labor Conference (CLC); and member, Technical Executive Committee of the National Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (NTIPC). This reaction paper is based on the following premises: Labor contracting or subcontracting in its various…
Circular No. 17-07 March 17, 2017 To All The Bishops and The Diocesan Administrators Your Eminences, Your Excellencies & Reverend Administrators, RE: AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED At the Permanent Council meeting last March 13, 2017, the body approved the request of the AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED…
Engr. Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada March 13, 2017 “We must understand a thing so that we may shape it. If we don’t, the thing will shape us”. – Anonymous What is the National Broadband Network (NBN) It is best to explain the NBN with an analogy to something that most of…
Lowering the age of criminal liability for children compounds the failure of govt to look out for their welfare UCAN by Father Shay Cullen, Manila Philippines March 15, 2017 I first saw Rosi, a six-year-old girl, inside a police detention cell in Olongapo City’s red light district. Remembering that day, I am…
Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte has identified oil palm development as one of the key industries that, according to him, could boost the country’s economy. He has indicated both Palawan and Mindanao as the new frontiers for oil palm expansion. The former is also known as the ‘last frontier’ for its dense forest…
by Andrew Lim Posted by The Society of Honor on March 8, 2017 When ancient man figured out that living in groups, specially large ones was more advantageous, he quickly learned how to make a deal- get something by giving up another. The deal could be between two entities: a modus vivendi, or internally,…
“The Bread and the Body, the Wine and the Blood” Was the Focus of Morning Meditation During Course of Spiritual Exercises for Pope and Roman Curia What is our relation with food? Around the supper, do we Christians find unity or are we divided? By shedding His Blood, did Jesus…
Concerned lay Catholics are invited to attend your respective Barangay assemblies and be informed of plans, projects and activities of your Barangay. The Gising Barangay Movement (GBM) is an N.G.O., an alliance of Filipinos who wish to do the little things in the barangay that together make up the big…
By Hannah Brockhaus , CNA During the forty days of Lent, as Christians we are called to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and address the spiritual battle against evil with the power of the Word of God,” he said March 5. “For this you have to become familiar with the Bible,…
Beijing, China, Mar 5, 2017 / 05:31 am (CNA).- For some 35 years, the population of China was strictly controlled by the Communist government’s one-child policy. Parents were only allowed one child, and additional pregnancies meant forced abortions or hefty fines and penalties, such as the loss of a job.…
