By KATH CORTEZDavao Today DAVAO CITY, Philippines – A bishop of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) and a peace talks consultant were acquitted from a seven-year case of possessing illegal explosives in Ozamiz City. In a 33-page resolution released on July 2, 2024, Ozamiz Regional Trial...
The Manobo evacuees, the last batch of 21 families remaining in UCCP Haran, return to Talaingod after years under the church’s sanctuary, fearing what awaits them in their communities — the same soldiers and paramilitary that have drove them away since 2014.
After fighting all the way to the Tokyo Olympics finals, local boxer Carlo Paalam will go home with a silver medal after losing to Great Britain’s Galal Yafai at the Kokugikan Arena Saturday afternoon, August 7.
Human rights groups condemn the arrest and planting of evidence on two community activists of Caraga based in Quezon City last July 16.
June 14, 2021 Kath M. Cortez DAVAO CITY – As COVID-19 cases in Davao City continues to rise, a shortage of nurses and medical staff has prompted the head of the Southern Philippine Medical Center (SPMC) to seek help from the City Government of Davao to address...
What started out as an inspiring act of sharing food through the community pantry has made two residents here become targets of the military’s red-tagging.
DAVAO TODAY DAVAO CITY – The United Church of Christ of the Philippines Southeast Mindanao Haran Center, which houses the displaced Lumad families from Talaingod and Kapalong, is dismayed by the freezing of its bank deposit by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC)....
by Ken E. Cagula DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Several days after the memorandum of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) tagging Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and COURAGE as communist fronts was exposed, the military and police arrested...
The UPMin Student Council stressed that the termination “endangers” the students’ right to free speech and academic freedom.
The case filed by journalist Margarita Valle against 17 military and police officers for wrongly arresting her in 2019 was dismissed by the Office of the Ombudsman
Mayor Sara Duterte last September 28 through Executive Order 53 that requires mandatory RT-PCR tests for patients and watchers be taken within 24 to 48 hours before admission.
In the commemoration of the September 21 Martial Law, progressive groups forego holding their rally at Freedom Park where police awaited them to force them again to sit on plastic chairs.
The displaced Manobo Lumad from Talaingod and Kapalong and the UCCP Haran are once again charged with trafficking persons and child abuse, charges they say is orchestrated by the lies of the government’s anti-insurgency task force.