SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur (MindaNews/15 November) – “The Church will stand up for and defend the environment if the Department of Environment and Natural Resoruces (DENR) cannot,” Butuan Bishop Juan de Dios Pueblos said Saturday, after officiating at the
In terms of numerology, the three tens placed side by side look quite impressive. 10 October 2010. That is what these three tens are all about: the second Sunday of October this year. For the Catholic Church in the Philippines, this is the celebration of the Indigenous Peoples or IP Sunday. On this day, priests are expected to give homilies and invited IPs provide commentaries on the sad plight of the IPs as well as encourage Christian lowlanders to express their solidarity with the IPs’ struggle for self-determination.
For us, Filipinos, 23 August 2010, now known all over the world as the “Philippine hostage crisis” will forever stand as a very dark day in our people’s history. On this fateful day, a former police officer hijacked a tour bus in Rizal Park, Manila, carrying 25 tourists from Hong Kong, including 5 Canadian nationals and 1 British. At the end of a ten hour negotiation and siege, 8 hostages and the hijacker lay dead. Finger pointing, investigations, damage control, continue to take place even now.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/04 September) – In his first pastoral letter after the August 29 grenade-lobbing incident in the San Vicente Ferrer Parish church in Kalilangan town, Bukidnon bishop Jose Araneta Cabantan called for prayers as he said “peace could be
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/30 August) – Sunday’s grenade attack on the San Vicente Ferrer church in Kalilangan, Bukidnon during a morning mass was related to a land conflict, the Bishop of Malaybalay, quoting parish priest Fr. Art Paraiso, said. At the
VALENCIA CITY(MindaNews/23 August) — For the first time in the parish’s history, the feast of San Agustin in Valencia City will be opened with a mass in Binukid, the language of the indigenous peoples. The 5 a.m. mass in Binukid
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 July) – Mindanao’s biking priest, Redemptorist Amado “Picx” Picardal is flying from Rome to Madrid tomorrow to prepare for this 26-day, 800-kilometer “running/walking pilgrimage” on the Camino de Santiago in France on July 16 to pray for
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 July) — Emma Asok, an active member of the Catholic Women’s League in the early 1980s was on the verge of tears upon hearing the news on the church-run DXDB AM station that Francisco Claver, Bukidnon’s first
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/01 July) – Bukidnon’s first bishop, Francisco Claver, SJ, passed away early this morning, Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo said. “I consider him the greatest prophet among the bishops against martial law and, after martial law, against social evils.
