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Is it church meddling or duty to right a wrong?
BASED on her reading of the encyclical "Deus Caritas Est" given her by Pope Benedict XVI, President Arroyo has accused Msgr. Deogracias Iñiguez of violating church doctrine, if not also the constitutional provision on the separation of church and state when he filed his impeachment complaint against her.
Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement 54th Anniversary
ON July 17, 1952, Dean Conrado Benitez led a group of Filipino professionals in founding the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), and served as its first president. PRRM recruited young, idealistic college graduates to become full-time rural reconstruction workers. Its programs were aimed at improving the rural areas through better health, better farming, enhanced livelihoods, and democratic barrio councils. On July 17, 2006, PRRM, the country’s oldest non-government organization (NGO), celebrates its 54th Anniversary with the theme "Celebrate Our 54th, Strengthen Our Movement."
Partners for Mindanao peace and development
THE Philippines and Libya are partners for peace and development in Southern Mindanao, with a rich and colorful history that goes back to even before the peace agreement between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front was signed. President Gloria Arroyo is the first Philippine President to be invited on a state visit to Libya, thus marking another milestone in the warm relations between the two countries.
A new accuser: Here today, gone tomorrow
WHILE still in America, long before she arrived in Manila on July 3, former beauty queen Joelle Marie Henson Pelaez announced to the media she would sue former President Estrada for using her name to launder money, R2.07 billion worth.
Poor boy who became Chief Justice
GMA: Only God can judge me at the end of my life.
National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week
TO create greater public awareness of the problems of disability and to encourage every citizen to take active responsibility in the upliftment of the economic and social conditions of persons with disabilities, the National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons and the Department of Education are leading the country in the observance of the 28th National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week on July 17-23, 2006.
Potentials of Poro Point
IT is a strategic seaport, with natural deep harbor and nearer in distance to major south Asian cities. But the way things are turning up in Poro Point in La Union, the mechanisms for development there are grinding to a halt.
Why Beirut became Israel’s collateral target
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s anti-Syrian government appeared powerless Saturday as it reeled under the weight of a deadly Israeli onslaught and the determination of the Shiite movement Hezbollah to continue its so-called "open war" against the Jewish state.
Jesus: A cause of division
JESUS said to the Twelve, "Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’
Overview: Youth sector commitments
SO, there is a National Road Map. What is the big deal it offers? In particular, who is going to pursue it? Who is going to walk on the road, following that Road Map, so as to help our country achieve the targets and eventually realize the vision that had been set forth?
Fearful negotiation
A RELIABLE source from Meralco recently told me that a deal with YNN to enable it and its "white knight" isn’t feasible if it would only result in increased power rates for consumers. But critics in the power sector remain unconvinced.
Gifts & politics: A volatile mix
AFTER the Catholic bishops have cautioned the country against wallowing in an "unproductive exercise" of impeaching the President, we remain mired in unproductive politics.
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