Thousands of people join the traslacion of the statue of the Black Nazarene during the religious figure’s feast day in Cagayan de Oro on Thursday (Jan. 9). (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
Local fishermen of Bantayan Island get ready to sail for an overnight catch of different kinds of seafood. They supply nearby resorts and restaurants, as well as local markets, with seafood. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
Norma Acuña (right), 72, lights a candle as she offers a prayer for those who perished in the flood brought by Typhoon Sendong eight years ago on Dec. 16, 2011 at the Sendong Memorial Wall in Gaston Park, Cagayan de Oro, Monday (Dec. 16). Acuña is a Sendong survivor. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
These students in a rally on the State of the Nation Address of former President Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada held newspapers with altered headlines bearing their calls for truth and justice to be revealed in the president’s SONA. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
Media organizations, campus journalists, academe, human rights advocates, and other sectoral groups in Davao City unite on becoming a collective voice to defend and uphold press freedom and right to freedom of expression following the successful press freedom forum at the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU) on Wednesday, Dec. 11. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)
A farmer in quake-affected community in Mlang town, Cotabato province starts to prepare the rice fields early in the morning despite continuing aftershocks in the area. (Kath M. Cortez/davaotoday.com)
Lean Alejandro, a well-known activist during martial law years, served as one of the speakers in a protest rally in Davao City. Alejandro was the former Bagong Alyansang Makabayan national secretary general when he was ambushed near the Bayan headquarters in Cubao, Quezon City during Cory Aquino’s administration. He was 27 years old.
Lumad women from southern Mindanao join the global call to free all women from different forms of violence as they take part on the launching of One Billion Rising 2020 campaign in Davao City, on Nov. 27. (Ken E. Cagula/davaotoday.com)
Football players from the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology (neon green jersey) fiercely competes with the Caraga State University (blue green jersey) at the Pedro N. Romualdo Memorial Sports Complex during the first day of the 30th Mindanao Association of State Tertiary Schools (Masts) Friendship Games held in Mambajao, Camiguin, Sunday (Nov. 24). In that game, CFCST wins versus CSU, 1-0. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)
Students of the University of the Philippines Mindanao participate in a candle lighting ceremony in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of Ampatuan Massacre wherein 58 people were killed, including 32 journalists in Ampatuan, Maguindanao. The activity seeks to give light to the continued lack of justice on the fallen as well as to condemn the continuing attacks on journalists in the Philippines. | Photo contributed by Regina Louelle Masacupan
