Category: Religion

What I learned from Boy Abunda’s and Billy Crawford’s personal dramas

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What I learned from Boy Abunda’s and Billy Crawford’s personal dramas

Fascinating the way life’s common vicissitudes are somehow magnified and celebrated when celebrities experience them. Whether it be falling into and then rehabilitation from alcohol or substance abuse, getting sick then recovering, suffering a nervous breakdown, or experiencing the heady bliss of romance, showbiz folk make a big drama out of it. I guess that’s…

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Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Religion

Philippine Army keeps cool as Malaysia goes on high alert against Islamic militants!

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Philippine Army keeps cool as Malaysia goes on high alert against Islamic militants!

For many Filipinos, the fight being waged by Islamic militants to re-establish a Muslim caliphate across vast swaths of the Arab world in North Africa and the Middle East has remained a mere peripheral issue. Recent events however have revealed disturbing insight into how much of the events over there may be resonating among the…

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Culture, Government, Religion, The South

Will Pope Francis’s prayers make a difference to Typhoon Haiyan’s victims in the Philippines?

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Will Pope Francis’s prayers make a difference to Typhoon Haiyan’s victims in the Philippines?

There is a world of difference between (1) making a quick visit to the Philippines, and beholding all the usual stock-standard confronting sights of impoverished Filipinos “bravely” scraping together a living and (2) growing up in the Philippines, and experiencing that poverty (either as a part of it or as an observer) everyday for many…

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Civics, Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Media, Religion

Arbitrary Tyranny in the Guise of Faith

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Arbitrary Tyranny in the Guise of Faith

On July 14, 2014, the Church of England voted to allow women to become bishops. “Today is the completion of what was begun over 20 years ago with the ordination of women as priests. I am delighted with today’s result,” said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world’s 80 million Anglicans. (Reuters)…

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Culture, Development, Education, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

PNoy’s friends with benefits: Good thing the Iglesia ni Cristo does not suffer from erectile dysfunction

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PNoy’s friends with benefits: Good thing the Iglesia ni Cristo does not suffer from erectile dysfunction

Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III is now on the run — from his own propaganda machine. No less than erstwhile Aquino apologist Conrado de Quiros laments the growing lameness of the ‘Edsa story’ in the eyes of the Filipino youth in his Inquirer column today, Storytelling. Echoing what I wrote earlier, de Quiros…

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Culture, Education, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Will global ‘outrage’ over jailed Al Jazeera journalists turn into CONCRETE action?

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Will global ‘outrage’ over jailed Al Jazeera journalists turn into CONCRETE action?

Global outrage has erupted over the harsh prison sentences meted out to Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed last Monday. The three were successfully prosecuted in an Egyptian court for allegedly “undermining” Egypt’s “national security” supposedly by supplying false news and aiding terrorist movements deemed threats to the Egyptian government. Being…

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Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Dear Lucy Torres: Why not a COMPREHENSIVE Anti Bad Manners bill instead?

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Dear Lucy Torres: Why not a COMPREHENSIVE Anti Bad Manners bill instead?

Seriously? A honk-free day in the Philippines? We need to get to the bottom of the kind of thinking House Representative Lucy Torres-Gomez (wife of movie idol Richard Gomez) was applying when she came up with House Bill 4542 which, according to this Gulf News report, “aims to bring to the people’s attention the importance…

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Civics, Culture, Education, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

Did Bong Revilla Take The Lord’s Name In Vain?

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Did Bong Revilla Take The Lord’s Name In Vain?

I didn’t want to comment about Senator Bong Revilla’s t-shirt scripture, but tonight, for some reason, I feel compelled to do so. I’ve been avoiding writing about Christian stuff not out of fear, but because I know that I don’t know enough about Christianity despite being a Catholic all my life and I tend to…

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Politics, Religion, Society