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Lent and The Rituals of our Lives

By Archie Modequillo | March 20, 2006 - 12:00am

Lent this year began on March 1, Ash Wednesday. The forty-day period of fasting, penitence, and self-denial is traditionally observed by Christians to commemorate the number of days that Jesus spent fasting in the...

Freeman Cebu Lifestyle

Let’s just do it!

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Carmen N. Pedrosa | October 17, 2004 - 12:00am

If there was a phrase that went down well with the audience during the President’s inaugural speech in Batasang Pambansa, it is these words: Let’s just do it. It shows she understands what is holding this...

Opinion

Christianity and Islam

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | November 18, 2003 - 12:00am

Christianity is older than Islam. But in the Philippines, Islam arrived earlier than Christianity. Today, one of our major problems is world terrorism and, sad to say, that is still an extension of the old conflict...

Opinion

Eid el-Fitr marked as national holiday

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | December 5, 2002 - 12:00am

For a month now, the Muslim world has been observing the Ramadan, which is the ninth month of the Muslim Year and the Islamic equivalent of the Christian Lent. It is a Holy Month because it was when the Koran was...

Opinion