Two former Philippine Presidents has one common experience. They have shared the experience of what it feels to sleep in incarceration. Former president Joseph Estrada and his successor former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo now know how it is to live in a cell. Even if the use of cell phone was disallowed they enjoyed air-conditioned [...]

Alfredo E. Pascual, the 20th President of the University of the Philippines , presented before the UP alumni now based in the West Coast the institution’s 2012 thrust. Pascual is serving a six-year term in the UP system which consists of seven constituent U.P. campuses: Diliman, Los Banos, Manila, Baguio, Visayas, Mindanao and Open [...]

One hundred years after (1521) Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines, the initial batch of British immigrants landed in Boston , Massachussets in 1621 and the first Thanksgiving feast was initiated on the American soil. Native American Indians joined in the British tradition of gratitude. Much of the credit for the adoption of a later annual [...]

Leads-CEGP 6972, with Elso Cabangon as organizing president, requested for specially prayers for the departed souls of the student leaders who surfaced and perished in the battle for reforms before and after Martial Law. The roster of activists who sacrificed their lives in the mantel of democracy included Tony Tagamolila, Babes Calixto, Jessica Sales, Leticia [...]

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinion drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
Steve Jobs, founding president of the Apple Computer, stressed this to Stanford University graduates sometime before he left for the Great Beyond. His admonition has been retained both in the public [...]

“The family that prays together stays together,” has been the spiritual battle cry of Fr. Patrick Peyton when he launched the Family Rosary Crusade right after the Second World War. On May 13, 1945 families all over the country heard a program like no other featuring Cardinal Spellman of New York, President Harry Truman, Bing [...]

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 marks the start of the novena of the Filipino faithful to the Our Lady of Perpetual Help devotion in Daly City . The Redemptorist priests brought the Wednesday devotion to Baclaran church in Paranaque , Metro Manila since time immemorial. Since then, every Wednesday thousands of devotees flock to the Baclaran [...]

Thirty nine years ago on September 21, 1972 – Ferdinand E. Marcos was the President of the Philippines . Every Filipino worth his salt – young and old alike – will not forget that early morning when there was not a word of protest heard. No means of communication, no media. Clamped and clubbered, the [...]

By his own admission, appointed San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee told David Chiu, SF board of supervisors president, that Willie Brown and Rose Pak (in a concerted effort) pressured him to run for San Francisco mayor in the November elections. The revelation, aired from the camp of State senator Leland Yee, figured Rose Pak as [...]

Fr. Ciriaco Casareo Sevilla, Jr., SJ and Trinidad Alvarez, former mayor of Pagbilao, Quezon, were the leading recipients of Special Posthumous Award to the 2011 Quezon Medalya Karangalan. Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III, the special guest speaker and honored the awardees, coinciding with the birthday celebration of the late Manuel L. Quezon, Commonwealth President. [...]