Catholic Educators Urge Restraint After Ateneo De Zamboanga Shooting

Educational institutions urge safety in schools after Ateneo de Zamboanga shooting

Various educational institutions expressed their sympathies to those affected by the shooting in Zamboanga, emphasizing that schools must remain safe spaces.

Campus Gunfire Shocks Philippines

A Grade 9 student in the Philippines shot a schoolmate and then killed himself during morning classes, jolting a campus and a country still debating school safety after recent youth attacks. Story Snapshot Police and city officials confirmed two students died at a Zamboanga City campus. The school said the situation was contained and parents...

Campus violence: Secure schools, shape better lives

The deadly shooting at Ateneo de Zamboanga University on Aug. 18 should not be treated as just another case of campus-security failure. It should serve as a warning that the government must confront school violence on two fronts: keeping weapons and threats out of campuses, and teaching young people how to manage anger, identity, conflict, online influences, and the pressures of life.A Grade 9 student allegedly shot a Grade 10 schoolmate before …

Catholic educators urge restraint after Ateneo de Zamboanga shooting

Content warning: School shooting and violence Catholic educators on Tuesday called for compassion and restraint after a deadly shooting at Ateneo de

Catholics in the Philippines mourn 2 students killed at a Catholic school

Catholics in the Philippines observed a day of mourning Wednesday, one day after a shooting at a Catholic school left two students dead.A ninth-grade student shot and killed a classmate in the grade above him on the morning of Aug. 18 at the junior high school campus of Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the southern Philippines before taking his own life, police said. Authorities have identified the attacker only as a minor. Officials said he li…