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Bai Ali Indayla, a nominee of the Gabriela Women's Partylist Bai condemns the killing of the Grade 3 Manobo student, Alinbando Tingkas, who was killed on Sunday by a suspected member of the paramilitary group Alamara in Sitio Laslasakan, Barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte province. (Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

Bishop Ephraim Fajutagana (second from right), Iglesia Filipina Independiente Obispo Maximo (Supreme Bishop), and Bishop Joel Porlares (third from left), IFI bishop of Bulacan and Bataan link arms with the indigenous peoples leaders during their solidarity visit at the United Church of Christ in the Philippines Haran compound in Davao City, where hundreds of Lumads are seeking refuge since March, last year. Fajutagana said the root cause of the conflict is the big foreign mining investors and their local Filipino counterpart who wish to extract the resources of the Lumads ancestral lands.(Medel V. Hernani/davaotoday.com)

Dr. Ma.Teresa Ungson, Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator of the National Nutrition Council Region XI says that stunting is the biggest problem in the country due to lack of nutrition. Ungson announced in a press conference Monday that to address the problem on stunted children, the NNC is holding the First 1000 days program to assist pregnant mothers and their babies to ensure that they will get the best nutrition during the crucial stage of child development. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Hundreds of devotees go to Shrine Hills in Davao City to pray before the 48-year-old Holy Infant Jesus of Prague statue during the Sto. Niño festival on Friday. The statue is brought out for the public to see only once a year. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)