The artist behind the famous painting Hapag ng Pag-Asa and other works depicting Christ in everyday Filipino life passed away last July 20 from a fatal heart attack. This was posted on his website. It is with deep sadness that we share the news of our dear friend, Joey Velasco’s recent passing. He suffered...
The oldest Bible, Codes Sinaiticus, believed to be written over 1600 years ago is available online. According to a Time’s article, the site hosting the images of the Sinaiticus has already had 96.4 million hits in the first 48 hours of being available online. Time has a list of 10 interesting facts about the...
In a recent editorial entitled, “Two-pronged war against poverty,” Sun Star Cebu, a daily newspaper, claimed that the Philippines’ rising population is “one of the basic causes of pervasive poverty and which has become central to the reproductive health controversy.” This is false and obsolete thinking. Numerous economic studies have shown that there is...
