The attempt to turn members of the election watchdog group Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) into “partisan” campaigners for the elections has apparently failed.
Catholics should follow the controversial reproductive health law but closely guard its implementation to prevent abuses, a prominent Catholic lay leader said Tuesday.
Forget Iron Man or Thor in the meantime. There’s a new batch of superheroes in the Philippines out to fight villains seeking to disrupt and hijack the May elections.
The above are only two of the quotable quotes that the Catholic leadership said on Saturday to denounce President Benigno Aquino III for supporting the reproductive health bill, saying it undermined his promise to the people to stamp out corruption.
The goal was to clean the voters’ list, but the first day of the general registration of voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was characterized by the persistence of some irregularities.
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) on Sunday urged the government to go not just after Lintang Bedol but all those who had a hand in the purported “mega cheating” in the 2004 and 2007 elections. “Bedol should be charged and once proven guilty, penalized,” said Henrietta de Villa, the chair of the [...]
