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MANILA, April 14, 2015—“I have an appeal to make to our fellow Filipinos who are planning to work abroad: Do not just accept parcels or bags from people, especially [from] those you do not know.”

ROME, Italy, April 12, 2015–Pope Francis today referred to the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks in 1915 as a “genocide,” prompting the Turkish government to summon the Vatican’s ambassador for questioning.

MANILA, April 11, 2015 -– Backing from a major institution. This is how MILF chief peace negotiator Mohagher Iqbal sees the Catholic Church’s “support” for the hotly-debated Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).

MANILA, April 12, 2015–The family of Mary Jane Veloso who is facing execution in Indonesia for drug smuggling is held hostage by fear. Veloso’s mother, Celia, said they have received death threats after they started giving media interviews about a person who allegedly framed her daughter.

MANILA, April 2, 2015— A large alliance of Christian churches has rallied the people to pray for Mary Jane Veloso, the Filipina on death row in Indonesia.

NAGA City, March 29, 2015 — The Archdiocese of Caceres brings the Good News to the air waves with its radio program, Ca-Sarig, over The Mother’s Touch/Radio Veritas Naga, 98.3 FM from Mondays to Saturdays, 7:30 – 9:00 a.m., starting on March 23.

MANILA, Jan. 27, 2015— Family and friends of Kristel Mae Padasas paid their last respects earlier today to a Catholic charity worker who died after the papal Mass in Tacloban City.

DAGUPAN City, Pangasinan, Jan. 27, 2015—The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) decries the “act of violence against human life” which led to the death of at least 43 policemen in a “misencounter” with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Maguindanao (BIFF) Sunday, Jan. 25, in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, but remains firm in its support of the peace talks .