PEACE-MAKER The lingering conflicts and potential flashpoints in Asia, with possible wide-ranging catastrophic consequences, obstruct our region’s progress and peaceful development. While there exists a number of mechanisms to promote peace and resolve conflicts, we believe there is a need to...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said that the National Retreat for Priests (NRP) to be held in Cebu in November aims to provide a deeply enriching and spiritually rejuvenating experience for all priests. Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu (Photo from CBCP news) In partnership...
The Manila Cathedral will open a new exhibition commemorating the papal visits to the Philippines on Thursday, June 29. (Photo from The Manila Cathedral) According to the Manila Cathedral’s Facebook post, the exhibit titled "The Popes in the Philippines" will highlight the memorabilia from the...
Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula urged priests and churches to avoid rivalries in order to promote unity rather than division and advance the Church and its values. Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula (Photo from Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila) “Our people are all the more...
PEACE-MAKER We wish to express our profound appreciation to Dagupan City and our fellow Dagupenos, led by the dynamic and indefatigable Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, for bestowing us the Biskeg Na Baley Diamond Award, “the highest honor,” during the 75th Diamond Jubilee of Dagupan last June 19,...
By Teresita Cruz del Rosario It is the turbulent years of the early ’70s in the Philippines, over a hundred years since the execution of Dr. José Rizal. I sit in a class on Philippine History as an undergrad. We read his two novels—*Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer) and El...
The Caritas Philippines expanded its "Alay Kapwa Fund Campaign" to bring seven legacy programs to support and maintain social action initiatives relating to peace advocacy, democratic governance, ecology, sustainable agriculture, children's rights, disaster management, and other development...
CEBU CITY – Serve the people sincerely. Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma made this call to all candidates who will run in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in October. The prelate also called on the public to come out and exercise their right to suffrage. Palma said voters should be...
Sixty descendants of Dr. Jose Rizal, widely regarded as the greatest Philippine hero, have been invited by Mayor Roseller H. Rizal of Calamba and the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) to join the wreath-laying ceremonies to commemorate his 162nd birth anniversary on Monday,...
The municipal government of Angono is enjoining everyone to emulate the characteristics of the country’s national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. Speaking before the municipal government employees and guests during the flag raising ceremony at the municipal grounds, Municipal Administrator Clodualdo...
Japanese Ambassador to Manila Kazuhiko Koshikawa on Monday, June 19, commemorated Dr. Jose Rizal’s 162nd birth anniversary by posting a photo beside his monument at Hibiya Park in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Kazuhiko Koshikawa stands beside Jose Rizal's statue at Hibiya...
The Czech Embassy in Manila commemorated on Monday Philippine national hero Jose Rizal's 162th birth anniversary. The embassy remembered Rizal's friendship with Czech-born Ferdinand Blumentritt, which can be likened to the current relationship between Prague and Manila. Blumentritt, who...
