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Peasant group hits proposed agriculture budget cuts, demands higher subsidy
In its proposed 2023 budget, the agriculture department is set to slash about PhP211 million in “Irrigation Network Service”
Collecting trash earns young Frenchman in Indonesia ‘Asia’s Nobel Prize’
“The problem of plastic pollution is a huge one but if we have that dream, that conviction, and that passion, then things can happen”
Nelia Sancho and the saga of Filipino comfort women
Sancho’s death, along with the Lolas, highlights a sense of urgency for them to receive a formal unequivocal public apology
For fighting child abuse, Filipino pediatrician Bernadette Madrid earns ‘Asia’s Nobel...
"I was given the talent to do this and it has developed as I worked. That’s why I’m happy. It has become, for me, work that is God’s work”
As rice shortage looms, farmers remain unaided
Expect low rice harvest and high prices as usual this Christmas. The Philippines must import 2.9 million tons – 58 million sacks.
Philippines church groups appeal to President Marcos to revive peace talks...
The religious leaders called on Marcos “to reconstitute the [government] peace panel and resume the … peace negotiations"
Justice remains elusive seven years after killings of tribal leaders in...
“The blood of our leaders was not enough, the government intensified its military occupation of our communities and shut down our schools”
Philippines opens ‘Season of Creation’ with call to change ‘abusive ways’
“Listen to the voice begging us to change our abusive ways,” said Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, president of the bishops’ conference
Photos: Remembering the ‘Desaparecidos’
Families and friends of missing victims of enforced disappearances in the Philippines renew calls to surface 1,900 “desaparecidos”
Pope Francis names Filipino Jesuit priest to Vatican’s Catholic education body
Father Quilongquilong is a known theologian with a licentiate and doctorate in spirituality from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome
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