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By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA Davao Today The missioners have come this far, but being with the people that the late priest served is worth all the long and difficult travel.  After all, to them, it is a way of paying tribute to the man and the work he did as Christ’s follower, which is to fulfill Christ’s teachings of helping the poor and the underserved.

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today With the killing of paramilitary leaders in Arakan Valley, the harassment against lumad leaders have intensified, and worst, they are carried out in the guise of pangayaw.  For tribal leader Sergio Lumunday, such pangayaw is bereft of its true sense, which is done to defend the community when all other peaceful means have failed.

By DANILDA L. FUSILERO Davao Today “Ours was a prenda-arendo contract and we have agreed to plant organic rice only.  Now, why are they forcing us to plant bananas?”-- Gil Piquero, Chairperson of Kahugpungan sa mga Mag-uuma sa San Isidro

By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today “They insisted we are NPAs because we live in the mountains.  But I told them that we lumads don’t live in urban areas, rather in the hinterlands because it is where we get our source of living” -- Datu Tinoy Noa