There is a growing practice ok kidnapping and demanding ransom and, add to that, the assassination of those trying to fight corruption. We are becoming a country that is gradually being ruled by Mafias, and the government appears to be powerless.”
In the mid-‘70s, when the then Manila Midtown Ramada Hotel was being constructed, Sister Regina Victoria (Sr. “Regivic”) Yulo of the Religious of the Assumption was requested by representatives of the owners of the hotel, the Gokongwei group, to identify the structures deep down the construction site. But why, indeed, ask a nun to perform that task?
'The recent election of Archbishop Timothy Broglio as President of the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference is significant for the United States Church, for the global Church, and potentially for the Australian Church.' By Bill Uren
The newly appointed President of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) is well known to the members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in the continental forum and “needs no introduction”, the outgoing President, Fr. Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, has said.