This will be a very short write-up on how media, local and international, have been reporting on what has been happening in Zamboanga. I'm just referring to the alleged perpetrator of the violence done there. The early media reports in both the local and international press...
In our previous Shalom column we asked the question, How then can religious faith and culture lived in communities help bring about fundamental change? More specifically, how can the many faith communities, which are culturally different in the teachings and practices of their respective...
I began encoding this column last Sunday evening, August 25. I finished it at the Davao International Airport the following morning of August 26, the beginning of the “Million People March to Luneta”. When through social media the urgent call to a massive demo against the...
Last Monday, 19 August 2013 the Board of Directors of the Bishops-Ulama Conference met here in their office at the Karpentrade Building on McAthur Highway.. With the help of þhe former National Security Adviser they discussed the burning issues of the present situation with focus...
This topic is meant to provoke healthy speculations. Which is a mental exercise in truth-seeking. We are therefore requested not to jump into conclusions without actual knowledge of the truth supported by cold evidence. Our main purpose is to speculate on the bombings as political statement....
As a beginner in learning how to use the iPad and the blackberry mobile phone, I stumbled on news reports in English about the just-concluded World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Reading these reports makes me concerned about the possible misinterpretation and misuse...
In the religious tradition of the Orthodox Churches in Greece, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and West Asia 'icons' ( Greek word for images) were, and still are, an essential part of Christian life. They are visual representations of the mysteries of Faith and help...
The title of this column can provoke different reactions from different people. One set of these are people who would say, "Oh no, I don't have any difficulty at all in following Jesus. I go to our parish church on Sunday; I put some amount...
I would like to describe here in detail certain aspects of that privileged moment when I concelebrated with Pope Francis in the chapel of Santa Martha inside the Vatican. That moment occurred on 25 May 2013. Those aspects showed external signs of the Pope's simplicity...
The title of this Column should remind our readers of 2 previous reflections: Social Conscience Based on Shalom and When the Church Gets Sick. In my reflection on Shalom I recalled that this Hebrew word means Wholeness, Integrity, Harmony and Proportion in the life of an...
