Call made after region’s human rights body decided to stop tracking down these cases Continue monitoring cases of alleged extrajudicial killings. This is the plea of human rights lawyer Democrito Barcenas to the Commission on Human Rights…
CEBU CITY–A global human rights organization has described as “alarming” the spate of drug-related killings in the country that took place since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed his post in July 2016. In its annual report, Amnesty International…
Pro-life advocates called on Cebuanos — Catholics or not — to join the “Walk for Life” on Saturday, February 18, to voice out opposition to plans to revive the death penalty and the spate of drug-related killings…
The Catholic faithful or those who still believe in the Church’s position against extrajudicial killings and the death penalty, can mark Feb. 18, 4 a.m. as the date for the Walk For Peace, an activity to be…
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives were made to choose between two types of death – death under summary killings or death under capital punishment? This was the question posed by justice committee chairperson Oriental Mindoro Rep.…
Surely, we have come to a time when we have to define for ourselves — and once again — what it means to be a good Catholic. The president has called the Philippine Catholic bishops corrupt sons…
Five months ago, I intended to write “The Church is doing its part” to combat the escalating extrajudicial killings. I kept a list of Church statements and initiatives including an early item on a wear-black Mass at…
GOVERNOR Davide III is asking the Department of the Interior and Local Government in Central Visayas (DILG-7) to furnish him a copy of the list of the names of narco-politicians in Cebu. Davide said he wanted to…
His family and friends may believe and proclaim his innocence, but there’s no turning back the clock for Niño Rodel Taboada who died at the hands of agents of the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in…
CALLS for justice continued to flood social media as news of the slay of the 21-year-old Niño Rodel Taboada inside an alleged “drug den” in Cebu City spread. “Everyone knows how good you are. My brother was…
Mandaue City’s first drug surrenderer killed in broad daylight Barely two weeks after he told reporters in an interview in his cell that he continued to fear for his life because he was on the police hit…
Ania ang mga pulong nga mibutho ug mipatigbabaw sa ubang mga pulong sa miaging tuig 2016. 1. Tokhang. Ang shortcut sa mga pulong nga “toktok” ug “hangyo” nga gi-translate sa CNN isip, “knock and plead” para pagpa-surrender…