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Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage is a 17th-century Roman Catholic wooden image of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in the Philippines. The image, a Black Madonna that represents the Immaculate Conception, is enshrined in Antipolo Cathedral. The image was brought to the country by a Governor-General from Mexico in 1626.
His safe voyage across the Pacific Ocean was attributed to the image, which was given the title of “Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage”. This attribution was verified later by six other successful voyages with the image aboard as its patroness. When the Governor-General died in 1632, the statue was given to the Jesuits for enshrinement in the church of Antipolo which was then being built. The statue is one of the most celebrated images of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Philippines, gaining devotees since the mid-19th century. From May to July each year, the image attracts millions of pilgrims from all over the country and abroad.
South Korean WWII sex slave to appeal ruling dismissing her lawsuit 1 minute read
Seoul, May 5 (EFE).- A South Korean woman used as a sex slave by the Japanese army during World War II will appeal a recent court decision that dismissed a lawsuit against the Japanese government, a group of activists said Wednesday.
Lee Yong-soo, 92, one of the 14 South Koreans registered by the government as victims of the Japanese Imperial Army who still survive, had strongly opposed the Apr. 21 ruling issued by a Seoul Central District.
The court dismissed the lawsuit filed by a dozen sex slaves demanding financial compensation, citing the principle of “sovereign immunity,” a doctrine of international law that states that a country is immune from the judicial decisions of another country.
In 1942, Willemijntje was 10 years old and living on Sumatra, where she was born, an island in what later became Indonesia, which was then a Dutch colony. Willemijntje could speak three languages – English, Dutch and Malay – by the time she was three. When Japan occupied the country, she and her mother, Karel van der Laag, were captured and imprisoned in 1942. Life in the camp was brutal and she went for months without eating meat. Of the 1700 prisoners, 700 died before the war ended.
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Willemijntje van der Laag was 10 when she was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942. Her father, Johan van der Laag, was also taken prisoner, working on the Death Railway where he kept a diary.
April 19, 2021
April 19, 2021
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Among those who marched up College Avenue on Saturday morning in the inaugural WNMU Remembrance March are university President Joseph Shepard, and Lt. Gov. Howie Morales and his brother, Marvin Morales, who holds a photo of their late father, Henry Morales.
About a month ago, Jason Quimby, who serves as veterans affairs manager at Western New Mexico University, learned that the Bataan Memorial Death March, normally held in March at White Sands Missile Range, was going to take place virtually for a second consecutive year and he wanted to do something to offer marchers an opportunity for an in-person event.