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Filipino Catholics embark on the Traditional Penitential Walk in Antipolo’s International Shrine

Catholic faithful around metro Manila and other neighboring cities and towns trekked to the International Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage for Holy Thursday until Good Friday morning in remember the sacrifices of Jesus Christ. According to…

The risk of ChatGPT

Would anyone ask a talented actor not only to act and talk like a skilled surgeon in a convincing manner, but then allow him to take a scalpel and operate on him? It would seem stupid, wouldn’t it? Well, that…

The marginalised of the marginalised

Silo’s words that framed our project to sensitise sighted people to the group of blind people marginalised by our society: “When you do something for others, when you look for the needy, the disoriented, the dispossessed and help them to…

How bad policy ends up hurting the environment and the people

In general, we seek the expression of life in all its fullness. All this so that people can express their full capacities, faculties and potential, so that ecosystems and their respective species can express their life potential. But for that…

Peru – the bastion of fascism in the region

By Laura Arroyo Gárate* – SER.PE News In the last few hours, the Lugar de la Memoria (Place of Memory) has been arbitrarily closed down, demonstrating the advances in the chain of censorship of this regime. A chain that did…

On the road to humanism

We, Westerners, have been robbed of our access to and ability to get in touch with the Sacred. In all forms, not only in the religious or mystical sense but also in art, in communication with our fellow human beings,…

Democracy or Apartheid: You Can’t Have Both

For two consecutive nights this week, during the holy month of Ramadan, the Israeli military stormed Al-Aqsa mosque. They entered the mosque before prayer was over, firing rubber bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at Palestinian worshippers. These events left…

The Fear of AI Is Overblown—and Here’s Why

The unprecedented popularity of ChatGPT has turbocharged the AI hype machine. We are being bombarded daily by news articles announcing humankind’s greatest invention—Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is “qualitatively different,” “transformational,” “revolutionary,” “will change everything,”—they say. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT,…

Not Everyone in Germany Is Popping Corks as the Country Remilitarizes

News came at the end of March, courtesy of German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, that Germany had completed a delivery of 18 Leopard 2 A6 main battle tanks to Ukraine. Still more, as Reuters reported on April 2, the German…

Climate emergency: request for advisory opinion to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) adopted

On March 29th, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution formally requesting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an advisory opinion on the obligations of states with regard to the effects of climate change. The adoption of…

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