Opinion on Page One

Credit to Author: Ricardo Saludo| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:43:16 +0000

You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come. … Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one […]

Credit to Author: Fr. Shay Cullen, SSC| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:40:29 +0000

As I write this, monster typhoon “Tisoy,” with international name “Kammuri,” is ravaging the Bicol Region in central Philippines. It is packing winds at 209 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour) and it is more ferocious than the previous typhoons to hit this part of the nation’s archipelago. Tidal surges are wrecking houses, and […]

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:40:48 +0000

Today, there is awareness on how big city mayors are governing.  And it is a universal thing. The fact that the United States, whose politics is the politics outside of ours that is closely followed by Filipinos, has a city mayor — South Bend’s Pete Buttigieg — as a top-tier Democratic presidential aspirant adds to the […]

Credit to Author: Fr. Shay Cullen, SSC| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:38:50 +0000

Human trafficking for sexual exploitation is the most insidious and evil form of enslavement. That is because it is so personal and inflicts such human degradation and suffering on individuals day after day, year by year. It is one of the most serious kinds of human rights violations. Earlier this year, 26 teenagers aged 14 […]

Credit to Author: Ricardo Saludo| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:36:46 +0000

Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. In those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark. … So too, you also […]

Credit to Author: Rigoberto D. Tiglao| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:42:40 +0000

Second of 4 parts THE colossal hoax contrived in 1974 by the insurgent Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) of an alleged massacre of 1,500 Muslims in a barangay called Malisbong in Sultan Kudarat province, was intended to rouse to anger Muslim Arab leaders, especially the fiery Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, so they would support, with […]

Credit to Author: Rene Saguisag| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:32:28 +0000

HAS the Prez considered joining or leading the nation in prayer to solve any problem or to deal with a disaster? One on God’s side is a majority, said Wendell Phillips. But, the Prez has Pastor Quiboloy on his side, miraculously stopping quakes at his command, the Appointed Son of God himself reportedly brags. Do […]

Credit to Author: Ma. Isabel Ongpin| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 16:29:55 +0000

  THE 7th Asean Traditional Textiles Symposium is currently going on in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Jogjakarta is a fitting site for a cultural forum as it is the premier city for fine arts and culture in Java and Indonesia as a whole. It is also a renowned educational center. Association of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean) countries […]

Credit to Author: Rigoberto D. Tiglao| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:34:43 +0000

First of 4 parts EVERY September in the past few years when martial law again becomes a topic of debate, the purported massacre of some “1,500 Muslims and over a thousand women raped” in Malisbong village in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat in September 1974 by a Philippine Army battalion is presented as evidence that Marcos’ strongman […]

Credit to Author: Ramon T. Tulfo| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:12:13 +0000

AS we celebrate All Souls’ Day today, let’s remember that our dearly departed have never left us. They now live in a dimension different from our own. And to people who believe in hell, there is no such place in the afterlife. There is only heaven, an R&R (rest and recreation) for the soul after […]