Shay Cullen, MSSC 7 September 2018 Recently, we at the Preda Foundation have opened a new home for troubled boys in Liloan a few kilometers outside Metro Cebu. This was possible with the help of our supporters. The children in the Preda homes can be 10 to 15 years old.…
September 12 @ 10:00 AM – September 16 @ 8:00 PM Bibles | New Testament | Youth Bibles | Children’s Bible | Special Edition Bibles It’s that time of the year again for the biggest book fair in the country! Come and join us for the 39th Manila International Book…
By Kathy Yamzon – Sep 4, 2018 GUTS officials at the Department of Labor and Employment. The PLDT employees filed a notice of strike today. Photo by Kathy Yamzon. PLDT supervisory union Gabay ng Unyon sa Telekomunikasyon ng mga Superbisor (GUTS) filed a “notice of strike” today at the Department…
‘A Franciscan priest famous for his decades-long and staunch defense of the Sierra Madre Mountain range has accused Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu of abandoning his job, criticizing the official for easing tree-cutting rules to accelerate projects under the government’s Build, Build, Build program. “While global environmental bodies are intent on…
Rationale/Context: Protection of the Environment Struggle The struggle of indigenous people, farmers and fisherfolk communities to protect the environment have been a long and arduous struggle in the Philippines. The community’s perspective that they are part and one with the land, seas, trees, and the whole biodiversity pales and…
While the whole world is intent on growing trees to reduce global warming, the DENR is fast tracking the issuance of the cutting and relocation of trees affected by the construction of the DPWH by delegating to 147 CENROs the power to issue permits. Such an action has doused cold…
To All People of Good Will: Greetings of Peace in the Lord! True Believers in God have to cry out in outrage at the terrorist bombings in the town of Isulan, Province of Maguindanao. All religions are religions of peace. Two bombings in the past five days have mercilessly snuffed…
In January 2011, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV filed a “general admission of guilt” and was granted amnesty under proclamation 75 issued by President Noynoy Aquino and concurred in by both houses of Congress. Today, Rodrigo Duterte issued Proclamation 572 revoking that grant and ordering the Senator’s immediate arrest and detention…
September 3, 2018 Dear friends, Our warmest greetings of peace and solidarity! On September 5, 2018 the missionary visa of Sr. Patricia Fox will expire. It had been publicly known that President Duterte did order for her deportation. We considered the decision of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to accept…
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In these recent days, we feel again, with growing intensity, the pain and shame, because of the many revelations of sexual misconduct, most particularly those done against minors but not only minors, committed by a significant number of clerics, a number of bishops, and by…
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