ANTIPOLO City, August 28, 2010—The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) has called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to break its silence to the possible environmental problems that the proposed Aurora Special Economic Zone Authority (Aseza), will create in the near future.
Fr. Mick Sinnott leaves Pagadian
MANILA, August 28, 2010—Irish missionary Fr. Michael Sinnott has quietly left Pagadian City early this month as the Mission Society of St. Columban closed is mission house in the city.
Jaro archdiocese joins cleanup drive vs dengue
MANILA, August 27, 2010—Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo has called for a massive clean-up drive as he joined the Iloilo City government to wage a concerted effort to combat the spread of dengue.
Lagdameo, in a circular letter, ordered his clergy to mobilize their parishioners for an extensive cleanup drive on September 1 to 2.
Mass to mark 9th day of hostage tragedy
MANILA, August 27, 2010—Government officials and Metro Manila residents will offer a Mass next week for the victims of the bloody hostage drama that killed several Hong Kong tourists.
Archdiocese of Manila’s Parish of Nuestra Senora de Guia based in Ermita district scheduled the Mass at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the 9th day of the victims’ deaths.
Blessed Mother Teresa, ‘icon of compassion and mercy’—Nuncio
MANILA, August 27, 2010—Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams, Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines, declared Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta as an icon of compassion and mercy who had centered her life with God.
Law prohibiting use of styrofoam in schools, filed
QUEZON City, August 27, 2010—Kabataan partylist Rep. Raymond V. Palatino has filed a bill prohibiting the use of styrofoam and other synthetic food containers, which he said are harmful to Mother Nature and people’s health.
