PHILIPPINES welcomed shortly before midnight yesterday what could be the world’s seven billionth person: a healthy 5.5-pound girl born in a government hospital in Manila.
IN a small barrio north of Manila, there will be no children dressed as devils, wicked witches or terrifying zombies and vampires to go trick-or-treating, carving jack-o’-lanterns or playing Halloween pranks on the eve of All Saints’ Day.
STUDENTS helped by Father Fausto Tentorio promised to continue the work and pursue the ideals of the slain Italian missionary priest they called “Father Pops.”
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino (PNoy) at the Jesus is Lord (JIL) Church Worldwide’s 33rd anniversary celebration on Friday night said people must be one with the government in turning to God to deal with problems it faces these days.
ORGANIZERS of a planned pro-life congress in Cebu City this month suspect the announced meeting of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with President Benigno Aquino coinciding with their movement’s gathering may be linked to the reproductive health (RH) bill’s struggle to pass in the Philippines Congress.
PLANS to build a network of flyovers in Cebu City to ease traffic have prompted dawn processions by opponents, including nuns, whose property would be affected by the development.
PROSECUTORS seeking to convict four Roman Catholic priests and a teacher in a pedophilia case want to use evidence of other sexual assault complaints and priest transfers in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
CATHOLIC Relief Services (CRS) team members based in Kenya traveled to Thailand last week to offer on-the-ground support to partners in Thailand helping thousands of people affected by the country’s worst flooding in decades.
THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has designated the last Sunday of October as Prison Sunday and the week before it as Prison Awareness Week.
SOME of the thousands of people who brought PIME Father Fausto Tentorio’s body to its final resting place in the cemetery in the Diocese of Kidapawan on October 25 may be back at his grave in the diocesan compound on All Souls’ Day to pay their respects to their dear pastor who was shot to death in his parish.
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