“We, victims of political imprisonment in our country hope that Your Holiness may be able to help in pressing for the return of the lost freedom and other rights of political prisoners.”
#DearPope | Political prisoners start ‘hunger strike’
Year: 2015
Welcoming the Pope of the poor to a country of the poor
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld More than a year ago when Pope Francis had barely warmed the papal office in Rome, his words and style of leadership signaled something new and welcome to more than one billion Catholics the world over, many of whom had become estranged from the institutional church over the decades.…
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The last leg of the Aquino presidency
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P16,000 minimum wage urged to avert more hunger, deprivation
“Wages take decades to adjust but the prices of Meralco, gas, water, increase often, just like that.” – Kadamay-NCR
Why is Aquino raising MRT, LRT fares when it is not needed? groups ask
“There is more than ample budget for the MRT and LRT but Malacañang wants to increase fares so that they can have discretion over the savings and turn this into a Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP)-like pork barrel to be spread to their favourite politicians.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
Pope Francis urged to intercede to free Filipino political prisoners
“Our political prisoners are like the Cuban 5, slapped and imprisoned for trumped-up charges. We appeal for the Pope’s intervention.”
Pope Francis invited to ‘gatherings of the poor’
“It is time that the poor speak for themselves.”