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In 1992, after four years in Manila, I returned to Davao with a renewed appreciation for my hometown. One of the first things I got myself into was an outdoors club that was also a forum for instilling in young people’s minds a love for everything Davao. In the Sandawa Apo Mountaineering Club I met [...]
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Luke 11: 14-23 Jer 7: 23-28/ Ps 95: 1-2. 6-7. 8-9 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. (Luke 11:23) Our God Almighty does not reign Over a divided kingdom; All divisions in His domain His Word and love sha…
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Friends of Mindanao is a group of foreigners and their wives/partners, based in Davao City. They meet socially in each other’s homes and in local restaurants. They also organize group trips to explore other parts of Mindanao. On the first and third Wednesday of each month they meet as a larger group to exchange news [...]
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Yesterday, the world’s attention was on Japan, upon the disaster wreaked by a magnitude 8.9 temblor that ruptured off the northeastern coast of Honshu island, and by the resultant tsunami that inundated Sendai and other parts of the archipelago. The latter, the mega-tsunami, caused more devastation than what brought it on. The Japanese call it [...]
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Today, Filipinos celebrate the 25th anniversary of the EDSA REVOLUTION, which brought the Marcos regime to its knees. On 25 February 1986, Filipinos peacefully won freedom from oppression and neglect by the conjugal dictatorship perpetrated by the Marcoses for two decades. Today, Filipinos can be proud of a legacy of revolution by peaceful means through [...]
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Hey guys!!I just found out about this Gawad Kalinga Challenge last week at Tumblr. And it captured my interest. I would be joining… at the same time look for others to join in on the fun as well.What made me excited is that you can choose the GK Expe…
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When I was a child, my father would sometimes take me and my brother to the forests of Bukidnon. Among the gigantic trees we would play hide-and-seek, explore ravines and cliffs, spy on small animals such as squirrels and birds… To get back to camp, we would listen for that piercing sound of steel biting [...]
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Matthew 9: 35-10:1,5a,6-8 Is 30: 19-21,23-26 / Ps 147 The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. (Matthew 9:37) God came to heal and exorcize, And proclaim pardon to sin…
Luke 6: 12-19 1 Cor 6:1-11 / Psa 149 Those troubled by evil spirits were cured, and the people all tried to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all. (Luke 6:19) We learned the power of prayer And the love of community; But the…
Matthew 13: 36-43 Jer 14:17-22 / Psa 79 The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. (Matthew 13:38-39) No evil seeds sown will prevail, God’s Word exposed the greatest liar, His scheming deeds are known to fail, …
In an effort to bring attention to a serious social problem in the Philippines, Kraft Foods Phils. has undertaken a worthy corporate social responsibility project called Cheez Whiz Palamantasan ng Sarap, Sustansya at Saya. In coordination with the Department of Education, this nationwide campaign was launched in Davao City last 17 July 2010 to help [...]
Matthew 11: 25-27 Isa 10:5-7,13b-16 / Psa 94 I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. (Matthew 11:25) Do not crave for worldly wisdom, Nor in i…
The annual celebration of Philippine Eagle Week is just around the corner (not to mention Philippine Independence Day). As you may know, the Philippine Eagle Foundation is aggressively and positively pushing for the preservation of our national bird, which was once hailed by Charles Lindbergh as “the air’s noblest flier,” as well as its habitat. [...]
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John 21: 20-25
Acts 28: 16-20,30-31 / Ps 11
This is the disciple who is bearing witness to these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
(John 21:24)
Lord, only one thing You require:
Be faithful in good times and in rough;
For lofty posts let me not aspire,
To serve You is [...]
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ICT Davao Inc. (IDI), the umbrella organization of all information and communications technology associations in Davao City, is spearheading a truly worthy endeavor to help protect the environment. Recognizing that its particular industry is a huge contributor to e-waste, this organization has mounted this campaign to hopefully stave off environmental damage. Such damage, caused by [...]
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The Mindanao Economic Development Council (Medco) organized last 26-27 November in Davao City a forum for government, media and citizen communicators, for peace initiatives in Mindanao. This was done through Medco’s Mindanao Information Network for Development and Peace, or MINDPeace. It was a well-represented group of concerned parties: there were delegates from mainstream media, non-traditional [...]
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The hideous event yesterday in Maguindanao Province has proven yet again how power corrupts the weak and the cowardly. It corrupts people to their core. The Mindanao Bloggers Community condemns the perpetrators, those criminals, and their masters who allowed the massacre of innocent people. The bloodshed, we are all too aware, was meant as a [...]
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BlogFest.Asia, the first-ever pan-Asia bloggers’ conference, became a venue for introducing the Mindanao Bloggers Community to the world. Put together by the DotAsia Organisation (the registrar for .asia domain names) in Hong Kong from 6 to 8 November 2009, 3 Filipinos were present at BlogFest.Asia to provide the audience with primers on the Philippine blogosphere. [...]
Last 24 October 2009, during the Philippine Blog Awards – Mindanao Edition in Cagayan de Oro City, the Dabawenyo was recognized as a Globe Digital Tribe Awardee for contributions to the Mindanao blogosphere. This award is an acknowledgment of the recipient’s commitment to, and leadership in, the development of the region’s blogosphere.
I would like to [...]
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I was very happy to have visited — at long last! — Asia’s Latin City (from 17 to 20 October), and to have touched base with the bloggers of Zamboanga. I’d already met some of them online (and two of them ‘offline’ during the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit last year), but seeing them all together [...]
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