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Osaka — Though the majority creed in Japan is Shintoism and Buddhism, the enshrinement of freedom of religion in the country’s laws means that Christians are free to live their faith here. I saw this in this…
Kyoto — Scholars of ethics, religion, philosophy, and psychology from around the world gathered in the city of Kobe from March 22 to 24 last week to share the latest research in a conference with the theme…
The Republic of the Philippines, according to its President, is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC) because, again according to the same Chief Executive, it is a European Union invention. President Rodrigo Duterte also said the…
I was listening to the radio when local station dyAB broadcast the call of some Supreme Court employees for Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to resign. The speech of Erwin Ocon, president of the Supreme Court Employees…
Like many a former student of mine at the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu, Myles Albasin, whom our military captured with five others in the still of the night in the mountains of Negros Oriental last…
Pedestrians are some of the most forsaken stakeholders of Cebu City’s increasingly choked thoroughfares. This can only be understood by those who have not (at least not yet) joined the panic buying of cars. On sunny days,…
As Valentine’s Day 1987 drew near, teacher gave her students an art project. Each of us in second-year kindergarten was to make a love note for a family member. I cut out a red paper heart and…
Just like that, we have come to the second month of the year. For us here at Cebu Daily News, it is the month of our 20th birthday. For romantics, it’s the month of love. For cultural…
It was the 20th of January 2018, eve of the Fiesta Señor, Cebu feast for the Child Jesus as king. Three ladies had just finished their second day of selling environment-friendly goods like wallets and delicacies from…
The phrase “Christmas in January” may sound jarring, but as anyone who went to Mass on any day until last Sunday would have noticed, Christmas is one long season rather than just a 24-hour holiday. One would…
If you look to your right going to Cebu’s south on its east coast, you will notice this hill from the road in the first time you pass in Carcar City. A larger-than-life statue of the Blessed…
The evening was slightly windy. The facade of the cathedral shone with lights that traced its edges, doors and windows. Worshippers in their best outfits flocked into the house of prayer, though others chose to sit on…
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