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Bakit hanggang ngayon, naghihirap pa ang ating Inang Bayan?
Ano nga ba ang dahilan at mabagal ang pagbaba ng poverty rate at populasyon sa ating bansa? Sa kasalukuyan, ang Pilipinas ay may populasyong 108.93 milyon at 25% o 25 milyon nito ay mahihirap.
Read More »Are you sad? St. Thomas Aquinas offers five doable and easy suggestions
We do feel sad once in a while. And we consider this human emotion as normal when your loved ones die, or missing, divorce or being separated, loss of your income, financial trouble or
Read More »What are your resolutions for 2021?
Are your goals for this year doable? Probably, your 2021 goals might be meagre in number due to the onslaught of COVID-19 which led to a new normal: wearing a face mask, washing your
Read More »Want to be happier this year, 2021?
I had been keeping for many years a copy of a narrative of Elvis Presley’s unhappiness and the list of ten rules for a happier life. There was no byline nor the identity of
Read More »Pure joy of Christmas
Amid the continuous threat of COVID-19 in our lives, we have to cling to the clusters of hope hanging before us and we have to find ways to make our faith as the strongest
Read More »COVID-19 vaccines: shades of hope with a warning from INTERPOL
The race to acquire the most coveted product in medical history has just begun. And the mass injection has just started to end dreadful COVID-19, a pandemic which has been changing our lives. Britain
Read More »Philippines: A Broken Country
The perennial natural disasters add to the breaking of the country into pieces plus many decades of dysfunctional governance It is alarming to see my home country being broken into pieces while the pangs
Read More »An average of 20 typhoons a year visit the Philippines: billions of pesos lost in properties, crops and lives
Ofel, Pepito, Quinta, Rolly and Siony? Do these names sound familiar? For the past few weeks, at least five tropical depressions turned into typhoons have been lashing some regions of the Philippines, and the
Read More »Who said travelling around the world is impossible at this pandemic age?
With all the restrictions like closed border crossings and the limited air travels to the various tourist destinations, one would just wait for a vaccine to end of COVID-19, making yourself bored and depressed
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