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A free man, priest killer lands in Davao

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Jan 29, 2008

A Hug for the Priest Killer of Cotabato. Norberto Manero, the newly released killer of Italian priest Tulio Favali, is greeted with a hug by a relative at the Davao International Airport on Monday afternoon. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

Goodbye, Fr. Paul Cunanan

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Jan 29, 2008

Davao priest Fr. Paul Cunanan died of a heart failure at 3 p.m. of January 19, this year. He was 68. Fr. Cunanan was at the doctor for a check-up at the Mindanao Heart Center, where he was confined and scheduled for a heart operation, when he gave in after to a cardiac arrest.

Lumads flee as military steps up operations in Talaingod

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Jan 29, 2008

Salupongan believed that their opposition to the Integrated Forestry Management Agreement logging project must have prompted the military to intensify their operation in the area. The lumads have been fighting against the government-backed IFMA for a long time now because it threatens to intrude into their ancestral domain. Your browser may not support display of this image.

Japanese pastors learn shocking things about Davao bananas

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Jan 29, 2008

Reverend Fr. John Yuji Kanzaki, chair of the Philippine committee of the National Christian Churches of Japan (NCCJ), remembers growing up in Japan, where he used to love bananas as a boy. Bananas are expensive in Japan, he tells reporters here, When I was a boy, I cant stop eating them. But a recent visit in banana plantations in Compostela Valley made him change his mind.