A 26-year old man has been jailed for three months under a colonial-era sedition law for wearing a T-shirt that called for Hong Kong’s “liberation”.The city’s top magistrate told West Kowloon Court on Wednesday that Chu Kai-pong’s offensive conduct at the city’s airport risked revitalising the 2019 anti-government protests, which subsided after Beijing’s imposition of the national security law in June the following year.Chief Magistrate Victor So Wai-tak, hand-picked by the city’s leader to hear national security cases, said Chu had flouted the law and showed no concern over walking about in public wearing clothing bearing the seditious slogan. Read More...
The Philippines said on Monday it would file sexual abuse charges against a Filipino pastor who is wanted in the US for child sex trafficking.
Apollo Quiboloy, a self-proclaimed “Son of God” and ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte, is the founder of Philippines-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ church.
The US Justice Department charged Quiboloy in 2021 with sex-trafficking of girls and women aged 12 to 25 to work as personal assistants, or “pastorals”, who were allegedly required to have sex with him. Read More...
Trigger Warning: This article contains mention of death.
Former TobyMac Diverse City member Gabriel Patillo, popularly known as Gabe, passed away on Friday, April 12 after battling cancer. The son of Gospel Music Association President Jackie Patillo, Gabe's presence was immensely treasured by Christian music singer and rapper, Toby McKeehan a.k.a TobyMac.
Gabe was a popular member of TobyMac’s road band Diverse City. Therefore, the 59-year-old singer paid a rich tribute to his late band member on social media. Read More...