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By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld More than a year ago when Pope Francis had barely warmed the papal office in Rome, his words and style of leadership signaled something new and welcome to more than one billion Catholics the world over, many of...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Many Filipinos heard it from clerics bristling over tour guide Carlos Celdran’s holding aloft a streamer with the word “Damaso” on it during a mass at the Manila Cathedral. They’ve also heard it from politicians who...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Most observers are likely to agree that the visit of Pope Francis has reinvigorated the faith of the millions of Catholics in the only predominantly Christian country in Asia. But that visit was also an expression...
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star Peasants and their supporters marched anew to Mendiola last Thursday to commemorate the 28th year of the Mendiola Massacre (Jan. 22, 1987). Again they cried for justice, primarily for the 13 farmer-marchers...
A Manobo leader and his son are keeping a tradition passed on through generations: the defense of their ancestral lands.
Settlers from Mindoro struggle to own the land that they have tilled for years in Palawan.
“Documented reports show no abatement, but an apparent increase in the number of attacks.”
Anakpawis Partylist continues to push for the Genuine Agrarian Reform Bill in the landlord-dominated Congress.
"We will be watchful in the coming days if the Aquino administration will make a paradigm shift in its programs especially those that concern the urban poor sector."
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat perspective During the visit of Pope Francis from January 15 to 19, time seemed to have gone to a standstill. We had non-working holidays, at least in Metro Manila; there was no traffic, except of course in areas where the roads were...
Ni JESSIE RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com tirik ang haring araw tumatagaktak ang pawis sa lahat ng singit ng kanyang katawan dama niya ang init na tila apoy na tumutunaw ng laman ngunit di ito alintana ng kanyang murang isipan binuhat, ang dalawang berdeng baldeng puno ng...
A new play on Carmen “Nanay Mameng” Deunida will show who she was before she became an activist.
ni Daniel Victor Dumanhog Bulatlat.com Kalahating kilong bigas ang pagkakasyahin para sa isang buong maghapon. Sa kalderong mauling, kakainin kahit na ang tutong. Gamit ang marungis na kamay na pansubo sa bibig, sisimutin ang pinggan hanggang sa ito ay masaid ng...
Environmental advocates vowed to continue their legal battle and protest actions against SM's cutting of trees.
Rebels released a prisoner of war as a gesture of "mercy and compassion."
QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Was Edsa Dos a coup, power grab, or an uprising? Was it a farce? It may be all of the above but it’s a political event worth celebrating. Why should we allow the Arroyos, Estradas, Aquinos, and the Catholic bishops to dominate the...
Pope Francis has already left the country, but the Aquino government has yet to release a single political prisoner.
“Look around us and one would see so many people who are homeless. It is high time for the government to look into these corrupt practices, most especially because it is Pope Francis himself who pointed it out.”
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