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JOSEPH KONY, UGANDAN WARLORD, TO BE TRIED IN ABSENTIA BY THE ICC! FACES CONFIRMATION HEARING SEPT. 9

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) HAS IMPLICATIONS ON DUTERTE, PUTIN & OTHER HIGH PROFILE CASES ADOLF HITLER’S PRIVATE SECRETARY WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA CHICAGO (PM) – JOSEPH Kony, 64, a notorious Ugandan rebel who led the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a militi...

80 YEARS AFTER THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB IN HIROSHIMA

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) MACARTHUR OPPOSED THE DROPPING OF ATOMIC BOMBS CHICAGO (PM) – EIGHTY YEARS (80) ago today, at 8:15 a.m., August 6. 1945, an American B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, carried out the first atomic bombing in the City of Hiroshima,...

DUTERTE STILL IN ICC DETENTION CENTRE, SAYS ICC SPOKESPERSON

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) CHICAGO (PM) – FORMER Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte “is still in the ICC detention centre,” according to Fadi El Abdallah, spokesperson of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, The Netherlands. In an email to...

The Straphanger: CAN AN ILLINOISAN POPE HELP REHABILITATE MISSISSIPPI RIVER?

The Straphanger ©2025 VY By Bobby M. Reyes Vatican Must Remember that Jesus Was the Original Fisher of Men Part XIII of "Fourteen Letters to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV" Series Dear Holy Father: Four of the twelve original apostles were fishermen: Simon (whom Jesus "rebaptized" a...

JGL Eye: WHY ICC PRE-TRIAL CHAMBER IS GOING REJECT MR. DUTERTE’S INTERIM RELEASE?

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) AUSTRALIA DECLINES TO HOST DUTERTE SURRENDEREE WAS ONCE GRANTED INTERIM RELEASE CHICAGO (PM) – In his pleadings to secure his interim release from detention, the lawyer of former Philippines president Rodrigo Roa Duterte, Paul K...

The Straphanger: PART 8: VATICAN CAN START NEGOTIATION TO END WARS IN MIDDLE EAST, UKRAINE AND ELSEWHERE

The Straphanger ©2025 By BOBBY M. REYES Part VIII of "Fourteen Letters to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV" Series 14 LETTERS FOR POPE LEO XIV His Holiness Pope Leo XIV 00120 Vatican City, Europe Through the Order of Saint Augustine Province of Santo Niño de Cebu Pilgrim Center Cor. Osmeña Blv...

POPE LEO XIV URGES RELEASE OF IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS, CHALLENGES THE CONSCIENCE OF THE NATIONS & INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) ”Only informed individuals can make free choices.” -- Pope Leo XIV POPE WANTS EVERYONE TO SAFEGUARD THE PRECIOUS GIFT OF FREE SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS CHICAGO (PM) – On the fourth...

NEW POPE LEO XIV IS A CHICAGO NATIVE

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) FIRST BISHOP OF ROME FROM NORTH AMERICA; SECOND FROM THE AMERICAS CHICAGO (PM) – Chicago-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope May 8 and took the...