Very few know and understand exorcism. In 1973, William Blatty wrote a novel entitled The Exorcist which was a movie hit starring Linda Blair as the possessed child and Max Von Sydow as the exorcist. Author Blatty said his novel was based on an incident...
On March 2019, there were already news that there was a strange dangerous virus causing death in Wuhan China. The World Health Organization (WHO) and medical agencies of all nations failed to act at once. By January 2020 COVID was all over the world. The...
The business section of the March 1 issue Philippine Star had a news item entitled “Phil urged hasten airport upgrades.” It cited Malaysia’s Air Asia Chief Executive Request for the Phil. to hurry up the completion, remodeling and improving of all airports so that more...
The Social Weather Survey issued several reports about Filipinos’ religiosity that are interesting. A 4th quarter 2022 survey show that 7 out of 10 Filipino Catholics pray at least once a day. Daily praying of other religious are higher. Weekly religious service attendance by Catholics...
On March 7, 2023 the House of Representatives approved for final reading 8 bills which will go to Senate. When the senate approves them, they will be sent to the President. The 8 bills will become laws when the President signs them. One of the...
In 1935, Davao Congressman Romualdo Quimpo (immigrant from Kalibo Aklan) sponsored a bill creating the chartered City of Davao. On October 16, 1936 President Manuel Quezon signed Commonwealth Act No. 5 (meaning it was the fifth law made the first year of the commonwealth period...
On December 2019 the Chinese City of Wuhan reported a very deadly and very infectious virus. China told the World Health Organization about it stressing that it is worse than the 2014 African ebola virus and the 1980’s HIV. The world’s response was slow, thinking...
7 lawmakers have proposed bills that will let minors (below 18 of age) get free contraceptives from government agencies allegedly to stop them from getting pregnant when they have sex. In the bills, minors age 15 to 17 years old can get reproductive health services...
Fr. Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger was born in Bavaria, Germany on April 16, 1927. He became a priest in 1951. The church in Germany recognized his brilliance in Theology that he was appointed Theology professor in several German universities and seminaries. On March 1977 he was...
In 1998 U.S. Congress passed the International Freedom Act to promote religious freedom as part of American Foreign Policy and to fight religious persecution globally. The law listed many economic and diplomatic tools to encourage all nations to accept freedom of religion and conscience as...