Flower vendors in Malaybalay City fashion coconut leaves into religious symbols like cross which they sell at P20 each for the Palm Sunday on March 29, which signals the start of the Holy Week. MindaNews photo by H. Marcos C.
COTABATO CITY (March 28) – Members of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) simultaneously offered prayers Saturday noon in an effort to help bring about peace. Rebecca Mokudef, Bliyan Libun (Woman Spiritual Leader) of the Tedurays, said the ritual for peace was simultaneously
ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanews/28 March) – A consortium of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) based in this city has adopted a resolution calling on the public to rally behind the peace initiatives of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III. The group said they
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 28 March) — Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan from June 7, 1933 when it was founded as a first year high school until March 22, 1958 when it became a university, Xavier University) just revealed a contradiction
Tedurays offer a ritual for peace in Cotabato City’s highest peak, “Tawan-tawan,” Pedro Colina Hill at 12 noon Saturday, March 28. In other villages in Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat and North Cotabato provinces where the Indigenous Peoples live, a similar ritual
(Deliveredy by Fr. Roberto C. Layson, OMI, during the graduation rites at the Ateneo de Davao University on March 28, 2015. Fr. Layson and his friend, Mike Alon, were conferred the honorary degrees of Doctor of Humanities). I really thank
(Commencement Speech delivered by Ateneo de Manila School of Government Dean Antonio G. M. La Viña, at the Father Saturnino Urios University in Butuan City on 26 March 2014) Let me begin by saying how happy I am to be here
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan (MindaNews / 28 March) — One day I will get bored with Facebook. Although it seems that THAT day is not yet today. Some get bored with my posts, the way I also get bored with
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/27 March) – Peace advocacy groups here lauded President Aquino for his determination to push the Bangsamoro peace process as avowed in his address to commemorate the first anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the
About a hundred Moro people, along with peace advocates, gather in Davao City to commemorate the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on March 27 last year.
Members of the Teduray tribe in South Upi, Maguindanao are busy preparing one of the ritual sites called Tenines at the Peak of Urok Kulayan, for the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples’ synchronized ritual for Peace at high noon Saturday, March 28.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 March) – Lumads or Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the proposed Bangsamoro are holding simultaneous rituals in every fenuwo (village) at 12 noon Saturday “to ask the Divine Creator to unite all Filipino citizens for the sake of
