Victim Tortured, Interrogated to Confirm Military Accusations vs Detained UCCP Pastor Berlin Guerrero

Even as the family and co-workers of UCCP Pastor Berlin Guerrero continue to cry out for freedom and justice for Pastor Berlin, another UCCP worker, Pastor Rodel Canja suffered torture in the hands of military agents. For four days, armed men alternately interrogated him and pressed him …

“God’s policy is antiquated and it cannot help the people who are reeling from poverty,” Duterte said during his weekly television program in Davao City. “We should study the situation of our country. There are families who have 10 or 12 children but their parents cannot feed them because they don’t have jobs.”

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today urged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to drop her government’s libel case against Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Archdiocese of Lingayen and Dagupan to spare her from criticisms that she continues to pursue a policy of vindictiveness against her critics.
Instead of getting back at her critics through harassment suits, Pimentel said the …

TAMED EDITION. The Church and some “guardians of public morals” are up in arms over the Philippine edition of Playboy magazine, whose first issue came out this week. But they have been largely silent on the existing sex magazines that are way raunchier than Playboy, such as Playhouse magazine (right) published by Atlas Publishing, the komiks giant. Read the story.

By Fr. Shay Cullen

“My God, my God, why did you abandon me?” (Mt 27: 46). There he was, Jesus from Nazareth, the son of a mere carpenter, the miracle worker, the man so loved by the poor and believed by many to be the Messiah. Jesus, the one whom
God sent to lead the world from corruption, exploitation, injustice and poverty …

In December 2007, a bishop and three priests of the Iglesia Filipina
Independiente (Philippine Independent Church or PIC) once again have
been threatened that they will be killed and have been the subjects
of overt surveillance. They were warned about undertaking their
social activities and ministry, or they would be murdered like their
colleagues. Within a short period, Bishop Delfin Callao Jr. of Davao
City and …