It is really clear to me that life is now asking women to take a leadership role in creating a new reality of fulfillment in economics, academe, religion, politics, and in sanity for the world. According to Jane Fonda “If women don’t own their strength...
Executive Order (EO) No. 26 or the nationwide smoking ban was signed by President Duterte on May 16 this year and took effect last July 23. Under this EO 26, smoking is prohibited in public and private transportation facilities, schools, food establishments, waiting shed areas,...
Through Republic Act No. 10923 the barangay and sangguniang kabataan elections supposedly held in October 2016 was postponed in October 23, 2017. The postponement was due to “election fatigue” because the national election was just held few months earlier (May 9, 2016). Last May of this...
House Speaker and Davao del Norte Representative, Pantaleon Alvarez, is suggesting for the extension of Martial Law in Mindanao for another five years or until the term of office of President Duterte ends in 2022. The Philippine Constitution does not provide for the length of time...
Before the advent of social media, there was already yellow journalism which stands for sensationalism and crude exaggeration of news which was not legitimate or was not well-researched. Usually yellow journalism caters to scandal-related news. Today, yellow journalism or yellow press has been outdone by fake...
In 2003, the term unli-rice became a by-word in the slow food chains. Unli-rice is the short term for unlimited number of rice servings which is free of charge. This offering is popular among the slow food chains like those of Mang Inasal, Penongs, Barbeque...
Amahan namong langitnon, Magbubuhat sa langit ug sa yuta, ang tinubdan sa gugma ug sa kalinaw. Mapu-angoron nagapangayo kamig pasaylo sa among mga kalapasan; sa mga kasakitan na among nahimo Kanimo. Amahan, nagapanghadlok kami karon tungod sa nahitabong pagbusikad sa usa ka bomba didto sa Roxas...
Several bomb attacks have rocked my city of Davao for the last 33 years but the latest four explosions are believed to be most tragic due to its death toll and location. San Pedro Cathedral was bombed twice: in 1981 with 17 deaths and 1993...
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="11810,11811,11813,11809,11808,11812,11814"] Santa Ana Parish was detached from San Pedro Parish and canonically erected on July 26, 1949. The plan to put up another parish in Davao City was conceived due to the increasing population of Catholics which San Pedro Parish could not alone contain....
[gallery columns="1" size="full" ids="10640,10641,10642,10643,10644,10645"] More than a thousand and five hundred lectors, commentators, cantors, and psalmists (LCCP) from the different parishes of the Archdiocese of Davao gathered at the Regional Major Seminary (REMASE) on March 5, 2016 for their 9th LCCP Convention with the theme: YUKARISTIYA:...