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[singlepic id=333 w=380 h=253 float=center] CYCLISTS.  Davao City holds the first KadayawJuan Road Bike Challenge, Saturday.  Seventy participants from Mindanao and Luzon joined the 150-kilometer race initiated by One Radio…

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Fr. Pops inspires Fil-Am church volunteers

By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today The missioners have come this far, but being with the people that the late priest served is worth all the long and difficult travel.  After all, to them, it is a way of paying tribute to the man and the work he did as Christ’s follower, which is to fulfill Christ’s teachings of helping the poor and the underserved.

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Lumads in Arakan fear military-backed ‘pangayaw’

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today With the killing of paramilitary leaders in Arakan Valley, the harassment against lumad leaders have intensified, and worst, they are carried out in the guise of pangayaw.  For tribal leader Sergio Lumunday, such pangayaw is bereft of its true sense, which is done to defend the community when all other peaceful means have failed.

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New jail for women, elderly and sick inmates in Cotabato

By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today RA 9710 or the Magna Carta for Women mandates the delivery of necessary services and intervention to women in difficult circumstances that include women in detention, and children, as well, under RA 9344 or the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006.

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