Siquijor to celebrate healing festival this Holy Week

Leo Udtohan 04/04/2023

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — The island-province of Siquijor will celebrate on April 5 to 8 the “Pahi-uli 2023: Siquijor Healing Festival” at Mt. Bandilaan National Park. The “Healing Festival” started in 2010. Siquijor, which used to be…

The beauty of letting them be 

Immae Lachica 03/25/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines— Let them be.  A simple phrase that would make our heart skip a beat.  In our world today, with the easy access to communication through the internet or through phones, the rumor mill cannot…

You know you are healing when you start doing these things

Immae Lachica 01/23/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—  Everyone goes through a rough patch in their lives. May it be something from work, family, or even from relationships with friends and partners. That’s why we need to learn how to heal, but…

Cebu Olympian Tabal spends ECQ time on self-reflection, healing

Mars G. Alison 04/25/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A time for self-reflection and healing. This is how Cebu Olympian long distance runner Mary Joy Tabal is spending the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) which is being implemented by the Cebu City government…

Finding healing through the lights of Christmas

Rosalie Abatayo 12/07/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Four decades of love has kept 69-year-old Victoria Satumbaga in Cebu, a place hundreds of kilometers away from her hometown in Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Sur. But at this time when its only…

Return of Balangiga Bells: ‘It’s time for healing and closure’

Inquirer.net 12/11/2018

MANILA, Philippines — The return of Balangiga Bells on Tuesday signals the closure of a dreadful chapter between the Philippines and United States after more than a hundred years. “Now they are home. They are going back…

Duterte favors ‘controlled, regulated’ marijuana use for healing – Palace

Inquirer.net 12/04/2018

MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang reiterated Tuesday that President Rodrigo Duterte is in favor of legalizing medical marijuana, a day after the nation’s top leader joked about using cannabis to stay awake. “Well, the President already made a…

Earth’s ozone layer is healing–UN

AP 11/08/2018

Washington — The earth’s protective ozone layer is finally healing from damage caused by aerosol sprays and coolants, a new United Nations report said. The ozone layer had been thinning since the late 1970s. Scientists raised the…

Traditional healing in downtown Cebu

Delta Dyrecka Letigio USJ-R Journalism Intern 09/11/2018

Mark and Susan have a three-month-old baby who just started teething. At night, the young couple barely gets to sleep as their child constantly wails in pain at the growth of his first molars. After several days…

On the call for healing

Editorial 11/06/2017

Good thing that the Palace didn’t take issue with the Catholic Church over its call to “heal the land” after it campaigned for an end to the extrajudicial killings in the country. But if we are to…

Hundreds join Cebu rally tackling EJKs and healing

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/05/2017

Teary-eyed and stuttering, Sister Ma. Elizabeth Dejan of the Religious of the Virgin Mary read the solidarity statement of Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma in front of different groups at the Capitol grounds for yesterday afternoon’s “Heal Our…

Healing our ailing Earth

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 11/05/2017

Hats off to Ecowaste Coalition, the foremost waste and pollution watchdog in our country, for the persistence and determination to mainstream the ecological values and principles behind the much-neglected RA 9003, the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act…

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