This week, all Christians are called upon to spend some moments of reflection, introspection, meditation — prayerful thoughts of inward reckoning — a form of accounting for everything we have so far behaved, acted and done as followers of Jesus Christ— how we have played our varied roles and shared a part or the whole of our lives to make this world a better place to dwell on—what the Great Teacher has left as a legacy for all humankind.
What is unwritten is that these changes are being done because of externally-sourced policies, namely, the K to 12, new CHED policies, and ASEAN integration.
Last Friday was the 145th anniversary of the Paris Commune which came into being on March 18, 1871 in Paris,France.
Let it be understood that unless the roots of poverty and oppression of people are addressed, genuine change is not within reach.
And thenceforth . . . His blood flowed briskly in his veins.
The grand deceit is as much a creation of the five post-Marcos administrations including the current US-Aquino regime as the lies and deception of the Marcoses themselves.
While an increasing number of women occupy higher positions in local public offices such as mayor and vice-mayor, governor and vice-governor, their orientation does not automatically mean advocating and defending women human rights nor taking up issues of discrimination and gender equity.
The forthcoming national elections, as with all previous elections since the so-called EDSA I “people power revolution” and the parade of bogus republics in the past, will never be a genuine expression of the slogan “from the people, by the people and for the people” much less embody the hope for the vast underprivileged majority to become the real bosses of the country.
The most recent clashes between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Moro armed groups in Lanao Del Sur and surrounding areas have forcibly driven around 6,000 to 10,000 Moro people out of their homes, and resulted to the deaths of yet unaccounted number of civilians.
It is inevitable that Professor Simbulan’s review of the book Undermining Patrimony will proceed in the following observations and insights, deep into the more than overwhelming evidence from the information and data gathered firsthand by the triad, namely Panalipdan, Inpeace Mindanao and the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines.
