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Category: Philippines

Migration with a Human Face

Government officials and civil society members from 163 countries, gathered in the Philippines for a meeting on migration, agreed that it was time to look beyond economic benefits and give the phenomenon a ‘human face.’ As the four-day ‘Second Global Forum on Migration and Development’ drew to a close, the consensus was that there needed to be a ‘’rights-based approach’’ to migrant workers, taking into consideration the benefits they bring to both home and host countries.

Prime Sarmiento
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World Mission Wins Two CMMA

World Mission has been granted two prizes by the Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) on October 29. Our magazine was distinguished as the Best Local Community/Parish Newspaper, repeating last year’s feat; and it won for the Best Special Feature – a prose authored by Frs. José Rebelo and Dave Domingues titled A Farm of Hope and published in its issue of April-May 2008. It was a reportage made in Masbate Island, in a farm belonging to the Fazenda da Esperança chain where, through work, community life and prayer, Filipino youth are being rescued from drugs, alcohol and other self-destructive dependences.

José Rebelo | Editor
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Tuberculosis Remains a Major Killer

Tuberculosis still ranks number six among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the Philippines. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the country has the ninth highest number of cases in the world and the highest in Southeast Asia. Globally, there were more than nine million new cases and about 1.7 million deaths from the disease in 2006; the WHO estimates there are more than 14 million people living with TB, which kills 75 Filipinos each day, according to the Department of Health.

Irin News
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Church Backs Ban On Foreign Transplants

Philippine Catholic bishops have backed a government decision to prohibit kidney transplants on foreign patients as part of a bid to regulate sales of kidneys and other human organs. GMA News reports the Catholic Church threw its full support behind the Department of Health’s decision to totally prohibit the transplants.

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A New Missiology Institute

The Society of the Divine Word’s Philippines Central Province (SVD PHC) began its two-year celebration of 100 years of missionary presence in the Philippines at Quezon City, highlighting mssion challenges today. The Order is planning the creation of a missiology institute as part of the centennial project.

UCA News
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Bishops Say ‘No’ to Trafficking of Organs

The Catholic bishops of the Philippines have decried the widespread “immoral and grossly exploitative” practice of soliciting donations of vital human organs which offends the dignity of the person for economic profit. The Bishops’ Conference intervened to call attention to the “spreading organ trafficking, particularly the commercialization of kidneys, which is silently but steadily thriving in rural and urban poor communities.” The phenomenon is in the hands of organized crime which does not hesitate to abduct and kill street children, homeless people, ordinary people for the trafficking of vital organs.

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Philippines

Parishioners Plant Trees to Save Rice Terraces

Northern Philippine Church workers are planting trees and campaigning against quarrying to help restore the famed rice terraces that face removal from the United Nations’ World Heritage List. “We are aware of the various threats to the rice terraces and we are doing our part to respond to these through our Integrity of Creation program,” Rowena Ngitiw, Bontoc-Lagawe vicariate’s Social Action and Development Center coordinator, explained.

UCA News
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Father Edward Malone Awarded

For his pivotal role in the integral growth of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), the Ateneo de Manila conferred the Bukas Palad Award upon Fr. Edward F. Malone, a Maryknoll Missionary.

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Going To Sunday Mass In Shopping Malls

The faithful can now partake in Sunday Mass and other rites on solemn occasions in the many shopping malls that dot the landscape of the Philippines, this according to Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, Archbishop of Manila.

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To Educate 10,000 Poor Students

Caritas Manila, the social service agency of the Archdiocese of Manila, wants to educate 10,000 poor students by 2010 as part of an ambitious plan to help 300,000 families in the Filipino capital.

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