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Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, is a special date in the Christian calendar.
It celebrates the beginning of many beliefs and traditions in the Catholic Church – Holy Eucharist, the washing of the feet ritual, the institution of the priesthood.

GOSPEL • John 13:1-15

The sanctity of an election lies in the participation of the people. Through an election, a consensus is formed. It may not be forced by the law for each eligible citizen to vote, but in a healthy democracy, it is the people’s way of choosing leaders who will represent them. And in these crucial post-pandemic times, someone who will lead the way to our country’s recovery and resiliency.

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Today’s observance of Araw ng Kagitingan commemorates the bravery and heroism of Filipinos who fought in Bataan, Corregidor and Bessang Pass.  

Every election cycle, voters and groups are up in arms to raise concerns about our country’s power supply. They fear that fraud, hacking, or cheating may happen if there will be a shortage in electricity during the May 9 national elections. And in a hotly contested election such as this one, a brownout is the last thing that our country needs. 

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With more or less 30 days before the national elections, the campaign season is hotter than the rising temperature of summer. With the open space provided by social media, various online platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and even TikTok are filled with political content — some are true but most often than not, a lot are misinformation, deliberately done to sow false or inaccurate reports.

Broadcaster Raffy Tulfo and Antique Rep. Loren Legarda took the top spots in the latest Manila Bulletin-Tangere pre-election senatorial survey results released on Wednesday, April 6.

Established on June 22, 1963 under Republic Act 3591, the PDIC has taken giant strides toward carving a niche as an exemplary government corporation that performs an essential function: providing insurance coverage to bank deposits while extending financial assistance to distressed banks. Starting from only ₱10,000 per depositor per bank, the PDIC now covers up to ₱500,000 per depositor per bank.

At the start of the pandemic, it was difficult to adjust to the new normal way of work. Workers suddenly found themselves working at home all the time, missing the interaction with co-workers and longing for their office desk. After two years, with life easing back to normalcy given the low Covid transmission, it’s the other way around — a lot of employees are now finding it hard to return to the office. 

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Food fuels a nation’s most important asset—its people. Without proper food and nutrition, hunger goes up, productivity goes down, and a nation ends up in shambles. Contentment—or discontent—of the citizenry lies on a government’s ability to feed its people, on how it secures food for the future, and how it grows food that weathers any crises or natural disasters.

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Are you sure you’re reading this right? It’s April Fools’ Day.

Without doing much arithmetic, there is a clear difference between how other representatives of the Lower House are elected—i.e., those who run as congressmen for districts or cities because they require a majority based on the total number of voters in their areas. Over the past elections, the number of participating party-lists have been fluctuating, reaching the highest total in 2010, when there were around 178 of them. In this year’s elections, 270 groups filed their certificates of candidacy and 177 of these made it to the final ballot.