Marawi residents hold Black Friday in Muslim prayer, protest-march

While the rest of the Christian Filipinos celebrated the Holy Week in church festivities, thousands of Meranaw residents in this Islamic city staged a symbolic protest to condemn the slow-paced government rehabilitation of their homes ravaged by war.”

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TEARS OF JOY. A father gets emotional after his daughter presented her diploma. There are 23 Lumad scholars of the non-governmental Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Incorporated (MISFI) received their college diploma on Monday, March 26, at the Liceo de Davao, a private college in Tagum City. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

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A Lumad father gets emotional after his daughter presented her college diploma. There are 23 Lumad scholars of the non-governmental Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Incorporated (MISFI) who received their college diploma on Monday, March 26, at the Liceo de Davao, a private college in Tagum City. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

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IP college grads next mission: Serve Lumad schools

Teary-eyed, proud and elated, 23 Lumad scholars of the non-governmental Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Incorporated (MISFI) received their college diplomas yesterday during the 29th commencement ceremony of a private college here, the Liceo de Davao.

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KUDLUNG. A beggar along San Pedro Street plays a kudlung, a two-stringed lute played by indigenous peoples in Mindanao, as means to entertain and ask for charity from passersby. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

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A beggar along San Pedro Street plays a kudlung, a two-stringed lute played by indigenous peoples in Mindanao, as means to entertain and ask for charity from passersby. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)

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