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MASS starts at 4 p.m. However, be at the venue much earlier at 2 p.m. at the latest. By 3 p.m. the arrival of busloads of IEC delegates may cause traffic congestion. The general public is advised…
The sound system has been tested and mounted. Large LED video screens, and about 30 tents of the Cebu city government are set up. With the sun shining for the past two days, and gravel layered on…
AT LEAST 191 families were displaced by the fire that hit two sitios of barangays Ibabao-Estancia and Guizo in Mandaue City last Friday afternoon. They can’t go back to rebuild their houses. Ibabao- Estancia Barangay captain Jun…
For Holy Mass, the altar is not just a table. It is where a sacred meal is prepared, the “Table of the Lord” which deserves special dignity. Simplicity was the main guideline in designing the white altar,…
ELEGANT pieces of furniture designed in Cebu were positioned around the Pavilion where the 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) was held. There were couches, chairs, tables, dividers and other fixtures made of rattan, stone, glass, wood and…
Business magnate Mary Sarindhorn Mativachranon of Thailand was a fugitive from the law for more than a decade, accused of a crime that she didn’t commit. She told delegates of the 51st International Eucharistic Congress that in…
A man and his 31-year-old son were fatally shot by still-unidentified assailants in barangay Amatogan, Tuburan town, northern Cebu. Police are looking into a land dispute as possible motive in the killing of Vicente Buhawi, 53, and…
THE family of deceased overseas worker Lotis Camocamo hopes her remains can be brought home from Saudi Arabia this week. Norma Baron, Camocamo’s cousin, said this is what they are looking forward to after talking with the…
Authors use a literary technique called “foreshadowing.” They leave clues for the reader to foresee what might come later on in the story, such that when events unfold the reader does not feel cheated because in…
This writer, the writer of kinutil, grew up in childhood as a close neighbor to poverty. He grew up, first, in Dumanjug where they were landowners with tenants who depended on them and to whom they were…
When my client, the owner of a soon-to-open downtown hotel that brands itself as both green and heritage conscious, told me that they needed something to decorate the big wall of the lobby but don’t have the…
Today is the closing mass of the International Eucharistic Congress. The activity at the South Road Properties (SRP) is expected to draw about a million people this afternoon. The whole week saw different IEC activities. This included…
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