DAVAO CITY

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.

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.

Davao farmers slam jathropa planting, Biofuels Act

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Jan 20, 2008

Foreign-funded Jathropa plantations are encroaching on agricultural lands and it only adds to the existing laws and policies that cause food deprivation among the poor Filipinos like the 70% farmers and farm workers in the country, Celso Pojas, KMP-SMR spokesperson said.

Death threat vs bishop denounced

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Jan 07, 2008

Last December 31, at around 2:50 in the afternoon, 45-year-old human-rights defender Bishop Delfin Callao Jr. and his family received a text message from 09206012624 saying Mag-ingat ka, Bilang na ang Oras mo.