A WALK for the late Pope John Paul II is scheduled on May 1 on the gentle, rolling hills of Morong, Bataan province, where he celebrated Mass in 1981 for Indochinese refugees who sought temporary shelter in the Philippines.
FILIPINO Catholic Church leaders meeting this week have ordered a review of pastoral plans of the country’s dioceses 20 years after the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II).
MORO groups on the southern island of Mindanao have urged the government to ensure a negotiated peace settlement with rebels and to create a Bangsamoro (Moro nation) sub-state.
THE Philippine government needs to make a “no-nonsense and thorough” review of small-scale mining operations following the disaster at a site in Mindanao, activists said.
THE mother of missing activist Filipino Jonas Burgos marked the Feast of Divine Mercy this week by asking authorities to help find her son, who she believed was abducted by military agents four years ago.
TWO images that many say resemble Jesus’ images etched on two branches of a tree inside the Subic Bay Freeport are drawing hundreds of Catholics to the former US Naval Base north of Manila.
TO most Catholics, seeing the Popemobile used by the late Pope John Paul II in his visit to the Philippines in 1995 relives the exhilarating, if not divine feeling and experience of seeing the man who was Christ’s successor on earth.
WHEN the Pope came in 1981, I covered his visit for a news agency, and I was able to see the Pope up close. But it was during the closed-door Catholic Mass Media Awards ceremonies (held at the Radio Veritas auditorium) that I was able to come even closer.
FROM the outside, they looked like large blocks of red clay, but hidden within were the contours of Pope John Paul II, waiting for 660 pounds of molten bronze to be poured inside and to become a statue.
DR. Eduardo Marban, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, and his wife, Linda Marban, research manager for Cedars-Sinai’s Board of Governors Heart Stem Cell Center, are blazing a new trail in adult cardiac stem-cell research.
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