Sister Foxy, 'undesirable alien.' in her own words

Philippine Daily Inquirer/Q and A/ by Ma. Ceres P. D...

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Ban plastic straws

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Belated Earth Day greetings!   When we were kids the straw that was used for sipping drinks from a bottle or glass was made of paper. Before throwing the straw into the trash, sometimes we would toss it in the air, catch it with the thumb and forefinger and start pressing it while saying, yes, no, yes, no to a question begging for an answer. One kept at it until the end of the straw...

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Q & A with Sr. Patricia Ann Fox, facing deportation from the Philippines

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Pro-poor nun, 'nasampolan'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo     A 71-year-old Australian Catholic missionary nun who has been working with marginalized Filipinos for more than 27 years is the latest person of interest in the Duterte administration’s crackdown on what it perceives as openly prohuman rights, propoor, and therefore not to its liking.   Officials of the Bureau of Immigration picked up Sr. Patricia Fox of the Our Lady...

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Swift justice?

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo I watched a convicted rapist being killed “slowly and gently” by lethal injection. He was strapped onto a gurney a few meters from the viewing room where we journalists sat. That was after lawmakers had brought back the death penalty (no longer by electrocution but by lethal injection) only for it to be scrapped again in a few years and after about a dozen kills. I do not want to describe...

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