DIPOLOG CITY (MindaNews/25 April) — As the City Council is moving regulate the selling and serving of liquor and other alcoholic drinks from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m., members of the Hotels, Resorts and Restaurants Association of Dipolog (HRRAD) are asking the Council “to immediately drop the proposed ordinance from its business of the day.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 April) – A diorama of the famous anthropomorphic secondary burial jars will be inaugurated at the town hall of Maitum, Sarangani province on May 5, as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the town.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 April) – Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla has reiterated that summary killings are no answer to “poverty and crime” and instead urged parishioners to “look at goodness because that is where hope comes from.”
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/24 April) — Participants to the recently-concluded 14th Asia-Europe Forum “Talk on the Hill” held at the Eden Nature Park here were impressed at the spirituality of indigenous peoples (Lumad) and how far Mindanao has gone in terms of interfaith and even intrafaith collaboration for peace, human rights and development.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/24 April) — Thirty focus group discussions (FGDs) on peace were held at the Mindanao State University (MSU) high school here Tuesday and Wednesday involving representatives from Catholics, Protestants and Lumads in the South Cotabato-Sarangani-Sultan Kudarat area.
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/24 April) — What is the implication to us Muslims in Mindanao when U.S. President Barack Obama spoke in Europe in unmistakable language: “We will never be at war with Islam.” America is, of course, not here engaged in a war against Muslims. The White House is disengaging a superpower from a foreign policy that has so divided the world seen through the neo-cons’ perspective of “us-versus-them” filter.
