The "pabasa," the story of the Passion of Christ chanted mostly by elderly folk in nipa huts and other places, will echo across the country today, Holy Monday, following yesterday’s Palm Sunday celebration to start the Christian observance of Holy Week.
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Three Filipina beauties — who will represent the country in prestigious international pageants — won three titles in the 2005 Binibining Pilipinas in a televised show from 9:30 p.m. last Saturday up to 1 a.m. yesterday at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and some of the country’s business leaders will lead today’s launching of the 2005 tax campaign of the Bureau of Internal Revenue at the Glorietta shopping center in Makati to stress the urgency of raising more money for the government and easing the country’s economic difficulties.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said yesterday boxer Manny Pacquiao was an example of the toughness of all Filipinos in surmounting the myriad trials the nation is now facing.
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The Philippine Army (PA) headed by Lt. Gen. Generoso S. Senga will celebrate its 108th anniversary today, March 21, with Secretary of the Department of National Defense Avelino J. Cruz Jr. as guest of honor and speaker at a flag raising ceremony at the PA grandstand in Fort Bonifacio, Metro Manila.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — A drawnlooking Pope John Paul II, unable to preside over Palm Sunday Mass for the first time in his 26-year papacy, appeared at his apartment window to greet tens of thousands of pilgrims who filled St. Peter's Square.
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