AS we celebrate the 106th year of Philippine independence, we, as a nation that has gone through several difficulties and momentous transitions, should remind ourselves that through unity and with our innate capabilities and power, the ideal of a Strong Republic is within reach. This reminder is so
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IN a recent testing of grade school students, which determined their readiness for high school, the Department of Education discovered that our students are appallingly backward in English, Math, and Science.
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REMEMBRANCE lunch today with six veterans of the Philippine Revolution(s), the struggles for independence, with Rodolfo Vasco, Erundino Carlos, Alfredo Salvador, Wenceslao Quijano, Efren C., myself, and the young Eglantyne (who saw only two revolutions, EDSA I and II).
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CARDINAL Jaime Sin might not have gotten what he wanted when he asked Mrs. Lourdes Pimentel to tell her husband, Sen. Aquilino Pimentel, to stop his filibustering that was delaying the canvass of votes in Congress.
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IT is obvious, even to the casual observers, that something terribly wrong is getting in the way of the canvass processes of the 22-man joint committee of Congress.
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WE Filipinos are still lucky. Our life is not as difficult as that of my parishioners in Zambia.” This is what Fr. Pat de los Reyes, SVD, a Filipino missionary to Zambia, Africa, once said in a talk he gave at Catholic Trade Manila while on home vacation.
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IN a period of grief and great stress, a good advice to take is to get back to work and fix our mind on the many other things that work imposes upon us.
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SIX years after the celebration of the Centennial of our Philippine Independence, I recall the several conferences we had the privilege of convening in several regions of the country – Cebu, Davao, Baguio, Dapitan and of course Manila. The paper writers and presenters who represented various discipl
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TODAY, the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland celebrate Queen’s Day to commemorate the official observance of the 78th birth anniversary of their Queen, Elizabeth II.
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EVER forget you are an earthen jar,” admonished the mother jar to her daughter. “All your life remember that.”
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THE Russian Federation celebrates its National Day today.
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JESUS said to His disciples, “You have heard that it was said to your ancestors, ‘Do not take a false oath, but make good to the Lord all that you vow.’ But I say to you, do not swear at all; not by heaven, for it is God’s throne; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it i
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