Published February 16, 2021, 4:03 PM
ABS-CBN and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines – Caritas Filipinas Foundation, Inc. (CBCP-CFFI) or Caritas Philippines are joining forces to help alleviate poverty in the country through launching an online portal for donations.
Starting Feb. 17 on Ash Wednesday, viewers and netizens who attend the Kapamilya Daily Mass with Fr. Tito Caluag on-air or online via ABS-CBN’s different platforms can make a donation to Caritas Philippines’ Alay Kapwa/Stewardship program, that will be used to support poverty alleviation programs for food security, education, jobs/livelihood, nutrition and mental health, and conscience collective formation, as well as relief operations during calamities, of Caritas Philippines’ Building Networks of Compassion (BNC) Movement.
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In a statement dated February 5, San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza, vice chair of the CBCP-National Secretariat for Social Action, Justice and Peace, said they are one with the call of the civil society organizations, the local Catholic Churches in Taytay and Puerto Princesa, and the people of Palawan to “re-examine the scientific, cultural and moral foundations of the law, above all economic and political gains of the proponents and their business allies – so that what happened at least 20 years ago when we opened up Palawan forests to extractive industries, will not happen again in the globally-significant island ecosystem.”
The social action arm of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines has urged authorities to look closer into the Tumandok killings and ensure that justice is served.
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MANILA: Caritas Philippines has echoed the call of Pope Francis and prominent Church bodies and leaders across the world to make the Covid-19 vaccine “available for all”. Bishop Jose Collin Bagaforo of Kidapawan, the national director of Caritas Philippines made the call following the controversial vaccination of members of President Rodrigo Duterte s security team, despite the lack of the regulatory approval of such a vaccine for the nation.
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Bishop Bagaforo said that “it was irresponsible to allow the breach of the regulatory process” and lamented that the “government is actually tolerating such imprudent and unauthorized action, even if PSG [Presidential Security Group] is saying the vaccines were donated.”