A Catholic bishop has urged Filipino families and parishes to practice energy conservation and strengthen charitable programs as rising global oil prices, fueled by tensions in the Middle East, threaten to increase transportation costs and household expenses.
Calls for nuclear restraint ring hollow when they come from countries that continue to maintain the capacity to destroy the world, Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David has warned, as renewed geopolitical tensions revive concerns about nuclear escalation.
Across many poor communities in the Philippines, women quietly carry some of the heaviest responsibilities of family and society, raising children amid poverty, protecting their families from abuse, and, in many cases, leaving home to work abroad.
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, Vice president of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences (FABC), warned that modern warfare risks becoming dangerously detached from human reality, as missiles and drones continue to fly across the Middle East.
Forty years after the 1986 People Power uprising, two Filipino women religious remember EDSA not simply as a political revolt but as a graced spiritual awakening, and ask whether the Church has failed to sustain that prophetic courage.
Marking the 40th anniversary of the 1986 People Power uprising, Bishop Gerardo Alminaza called on Filipinos to move beyond commemorating history and instead practice what he described as “People Responsibility” in confronting present-day injustices.
