The 85-year-old Argentine decried the “opposing blocs” of East and West, a veiled reference to the standoff over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a speech to religious leaders in the tiny Gulf state.
Human rights should not be “violated”, Pope Francis said Thursday after he arrived in the Gulf state of Bahrain, which has been criticised by rights groups for alleged abuses.
Pope Francis will become the first pontiff in history to visit Bahrain, in a trip this week that is hoped will cement ties with Islam but is also marked by accusations of human rights abuses in the Gulf state.
Against the backdrop of mosque minarets and a desert oil field, the biggest Catholic church in the Arabian peninsula opened its doors in Bahrain on Thursday.
A US court on Thursday reopened a case challenging the income from foreign entities that President Donald Trump makes through his hotel in Washington.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday led the send-off for the family of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) detained in Bahrain over the death of a Pakistani national.
Filipino household service workers have more promising employment prospects in China than in Middle East, the ACTS-OFW party-list said.
An initial 70,000 local and overseas jobs will be made available in 22 job fair sites in 16 regions across the country on June 12, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Wednesday.
The Philippines won its bid to keep its seat at the United Nations Human Rights Council despite international criticism of the administration’s war on drugs.
Bahrain, Cameroon and the Philippines were among a number of nations controversially elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday, sparking sharp criticism from rights groups and the United States.
