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A month after ISIS-inspired Maute militants laid siege to Marawi City, Meranaw menfolk from the city’s evacuation center brave occasional stray bullets to come and join the noon prayer at the Masjid at the Lanao del Sur provincial capitol complex
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/23 June) – Relations between the Philippines and its two neighbors, Indonesia and Malaysia, will enhance security patrol in the “porous southern backdoor” of the country that has remained vulnerable to international terrorists, a Palace official said. During the Mindanao
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/23 June) – Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Cardinal Quevedo condemned “in strongest terms” the attack on Wednesday of the Catholic chapel in Barangay Malagakit, Pigcawayan in North Cotabato. In a statement Wednesday, Quevedo cited in particular the desecration of the sacred hosts being kept at the chapel.
ELIN ANISHA GURO’s note: I wrote the English part below in Melbourne, Australia while watching a video of Marawi City burning on June 5, 2017. The Meranaw translation is from a Meranaw scholar and professor of ethnomusicology who pioneered the
