Category: Opinion-Editorial
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Land for new agriculture graduates
Secretary John Castriciones of the Department of Agrarian Reform announced this weekend a program that, he hopes, will encourage more young Filipinos to engage in farming and, in the process, help attain the goal of food security for the country.
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1.3 billion children in a ‘digital canyon’
The United Nations Children‘s Fund (UNICEF) came out Wednesday with a report that may have relevance to our educational system in the Philippines.
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The For-Bid(d)en verdict & covidsomnia
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL XXV
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Santa in my mind
One of the most iconic images attached to the Christmas season is the Santa Claus. A child’s mind is fascinated with a big bearded man wearing a glowing red attire and carrying on his back a sack filled with various gifts. Tradition puts it that every good child will surely receive a gift from Santa. If a good child requests for a gift, Santa would immediately reply to the child’s written request while s/he is asleep.
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Send out laborers for his harvest
Pastoral ministry is both challenging and rewarding. If we look around us, there seems to be an endless array of people who need the care of a shepherd. So many are homeless, depressed, poor, sick, and abandoned. This is already what Jesus sees in his own time. How much more these days, with the alienation, division, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the violence and hatred, the threat of technology and the dehumanization that often results from its abuse.
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We’ll need more than one vaccine supplier
The country along with the rest of the world needs a COVID-19 vaccine. The government has banned mass gatherings where the virus can spread. But even now, there are so many living in cramped shanties in neighborhoods with narrow alleys and they are all extremely vulnerable.
