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Linking producers with consumers: The Barangay Food Terminal System
TO directly link farm producers in the countryside to small wet markets in urban centers, the Department of Agriculture (DA) recently launched the Barangay Food Terminal (BFT) program. The program aims to make prime goods more accessible and affordable to low-income families.
The activist bishops
DURING the Catholic-led rally Sunday at the Rizal Park, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines warned that although Malacañang had withdrawn the Con-Ass threat, the people must not let their guard down.
Christ in history
BONAPARTE was probably an agnostic in 1808 (now an emperor) when he met the German scholar Wieland. He did not discuss politics or war, but did Wieland believe in the historicity of Christ?
Analysis
CAIRO — The spectre of civil war in the Middle East loomed in three separate regions as the year drew to a close. In Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories, central government faced a serious armed challenge to its authority.
Analysis
PADANG, Philippines — Sherwin Ballester doesn’t want an iPod or a pair of flash sneakers for Christmas, all he wants is a sign from his dead father and brother.
Reach out, leap for joy
THE fourth and last Sunday of Advent relates about Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth in her pregnant state.
The birth of John
WHEN the time arrived for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown His great mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her. When they came on the eighth day to circumcise the child, they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother said in reply, "No. He will be called John." But they answered her, "There is no one among your relatives who has this name." So they made signs, asking his father what he wished him to be called. He asked for a tablet and wrote, "John is his name," and all were amazed. Immediately his mouth was opened, his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God. Then fear came upon all their neighbors, and all these matters were discussed throughout the hill country of Judea. All who heard these things took them to heart, saying, "What, then, will this child be?" For surely the hand of the Lord was with him.
The Lord’s will in our lives
TOMORROW at midnight church bells all over the Christian world will ring to announce in exaltation the joyous coming of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Reviving Cha-cha? Not again!
THE President had apparently sent mixed signals during her keynote speech before an international gathering at the 40th anniversary of the Asian Development Bank. She said that there is need to pursue with vigor the goal of overhauling the Constitution. But she also acknowledged that there should be a "unified national consensus on the means and timetable." The question is — Who determines when it is the appropriate time? Even Presidential adviser, Mike Defensor warns that carrying such a plan before the May 2007 election would be courting disaster. And what is this about launching another People’s Initiative? This time, it is ULAP led by its president, Samar Governor Ben Evardone at the helm.
The truce of God
IN suspending offensive military operations (SOMO) against the NPA on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, AFP chief Hermogenes Esperon, Jr. merely obeyed an old tradition of warfare. I still remember the feast days in the provinces when the Huk rebels came down from the mountains and mingled with policemen and soldiers without any mishap. If this is going to happen again in this season of grace, the country will, indeed, be observing the "truce of God."
It’s only a movie
AS usual, is this the Metro Manila Film Festival or a Lily Monteverde Filmfest?
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