As the armed conflict in Marawi City continues, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma urged the people to turn to prayer and help stomp out terror and all forms of violence. The 67-year-old prelate has recently issued an…
Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Wednesday addressed fellow Asean lawmakers and urged member states of the region to join President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war against illegal drugs. Alvarez made the call in his remarks at the opening of…
Last Saturday marked the first year of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term of office, and it would be almost pointless to complain about his war on illegal drugs if it were not for the fact that it hit…
The leader of the militants who laid siege to a southern Philippine city is suspected to be hiding in a mosque there, the Philippines’ defense chief said Monday, days after Isnilon Hapilon was reported to have fled…
Today, an oversight committee spearheaded by the regional Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7) is supposed to evaluate the respective performances of the barangays in Central Visayas in the war against illegal drugs, and so far, there have…
An “unprecedented number of surrenderers” and nearly half a billion pesos’ worth of illegal drugs were seized by the Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 in the first year of the Duterte administration. “Our campaign against illegal drugs,…
Apparently, the war in Marawi City is not yet over despite the declaration of government forces that the war was to end last June 12, Philippine Independence Day. So why did the military fail to reach their…
Marawi City — Civilian rescue volunteers and members of the Philippine-Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace corridor took advantage of the ceasefire declared by the military on Sunday and plucked out five persons – including a baby…
Thirty-two countries attending the 35th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council said they have “deep concerns” over the summary killings linked to President Rodrigo Duterte’s war against illegal drugs. They also called on the Philippines…
Trying to implement major projects to be funded by the national government can be quite a tedious and taxing process that can take years of lobbying and processing papers, not to mention being further complicated by partisan…
While it is part and parcel of their job, it is still quite surprising to learn that the country’s armed forces is taking the initiative to hold public dialogues with Muslim leaders to counter the propaganda campaign…
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) has been named as the agency’s best regional office in the campaign against illegal drugs in the first quarter of the year. Director Yogi Filemon Ruiz attributed the…
