Tag: Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT: Church program helps poor meet food needs during pandemic
Program gives more purchasing power to poor families while helping to protect them from COVID-19
SPOTLIGHT: For some elderly Indians nationwide lockdown is a battle for...
Elderly facing higher health risks, challenges of social isolation and loss of income
SPOTLIGHT: Domestic work, joblessness keep women from reporting violence
When pandemic lockdown began, women’s rights advocates were quick to notice the missing gender dimension in govt response
SPOTLIGHT: The Galwan clash of India and China: Duplicity, brutality, and...
Both countries appear to be downplaying the violence, withholding information in face-saving attempts at de-escalation
SPOTLIGHT: Filipino priest brings Eucharist to faithful on a pick-up truck
Mass celebrations go mobile after govt implemented a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic
Spotlight: Joblessness forces Manila’s poor workers back to provinces
It was not a happy homecoming — there were no family members to meet the workers who were turned over to officials of their respective villages
SPOTLIGHT: Manila’s homeless find expression in theater
Play shows struggles of homeless people before pandemic up to the time they found shelter inside a church
SPOTLIGHT: China’s diplo-terrorism in Myanmar
Beijing associates with the lowest-level forms of terrorist and gangland violence in order to attain diplomatic objectives
SPOTLIGHT: Pandemic worsens situation of young mothers in conflict areas
People in conflict areas are left with nowhere to go as aid deliveries have lessened or stopped due to travel restrictions
SPOTLIGHT: Malaysia detains thousands of migrants in sting operation
Authorities use ruse of screening for coronavirus to raid apartment complexes in Kuala Lumpur for undocumented migrants and prep them for deportation