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Season of Lent LENT (Latin: Quadragesima, “fortieth”) is an observance in the liturgical year of many Christian denominations, lasting for a period of approximately six weeks leading up to Easter. In most Western denominations Lent is taken to run from Ash Wednesday to Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) or to Easter Eve. The traditional purpose of Lent is the penitential preparation of the believer— through prayer, penance, repentance, almsgiving, and self-denial. Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual commemoration of Holy Week, marking the death and resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events of the Passion of Christ on
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Barrels of gasoline spill off Tagoloan waters By GERRY L. GORIT, Photo-journalist
MISAMIS Oriental––Recovery efforts are under way to salvage barrels of gasoline that spilled in the sea off the coast of Tagoloan in Misamis Oriental. Residents of the affected seashore said they noticed the oil spill reportedly from the Petron depot around 2 a.m. yesterday.
Emergenc y workers have begun scooping the gasoline and transferring this to drums but the work continues as of press time. The area has been declared a no-lighting-of-fire zone pending complete retrieval operations. Cooking and lighting of cigarettes are prohibited. Because of this
many residents were not able to prepare breakfast this morning. A resident said the oil spill covered about 1/4th of an hectare of the sea surface. Small fishes were reported to be floating dead in the area. Petron officials have refused to be interviewed by the press although they were seen in the area discussing
the oil spill. The particular area affected is San Vicente in Barangay Casinglot, a coastal area where some fishermen live. Municipal and barangay officials have not declared the place a catastrophe area but they are closely monitoring the recovery work being done by emergency workers of Petron.
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Good Friday, which then culminates in the celebration on Easter Sunday of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. During Lent, many of the faithful commit to fasting or giving up certain types of luxuries as a form of penitence. The Stations of the Cross, a devotional commemoration of Christ’s carrying the Cross and of his execution, are often observed. Many Roman Catholic and some Protestant churches bare their altars LENT/PAGE 7
By DAHLIA BENEMERITO Correspondent
Emergency workers try to salvage whatever fuel they could from an oil spill in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental. The gasoline reportedly came from the Petron depot in Casinglot along the seashore. Photo by Gerry L. Gorit
Peace talks going nowhere: MILF By AL JACINTO, Regional Editor-Zamboanga
Lent celebrants carrying out a street procession during Holy Week. The violet color is often associated with penance and detachment. Similar Christian penitential practice is seen in other countries, sometimes associated with mortification of the flesh. Granada, Nicaragua.
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ZAMBOANGA City––The Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front is unlikely to sign any peace deal with Manila, saying negotiations that would put an end to bloody fighting in Mindanao is going nowhere. “The peace talks are going nowhere and the Philippine government seems not committed in forging
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a long and lasting peace in Mindanao. We don’t know what will be the outcome of these peace talks. There is a grim outlook here,” Mohagher Iqbal, the MILF’s chief peace negotiator, told the Mindanao Examiner. Peace talks are set to resume soon after both sides ended negotiations in March in Kuala Lumpur without any concrete agreement.
Malaysia, a member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, is brokering the peace talks. The MILF is demanding a Muslim sub-state in the southern region similar to Malaysia, but Manila flatly rejected this and offered the five-province Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao. “We will stick with our demand for a Muslim PEACE/PAGE 7
CAGAYAN de Oro City–– Earthsoul Solutions, Inc. (ESI), an advocate for the protection and preservation of environment, urged the government and private sectors to rally behind organic and natural farming to preserve the environment. ESI issued the call during the open forum of the justheld journalism seminar conducted by the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) and the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) and hosted by Mindanao Daily News, and BusinessWeek Mindanao. Earthsoul Solutions, a non-governmental organization (NGO), also announced its first Mindanao Environment Summit and Green Caravan on April 20-22, 2012 in Davao City, to raise the level of awareness among the people on the need to protect and preserve the environment. Neal Abejuela of MKAVI in Bukidnon, who led the group, said that they are ORGANIC/PAGE 7
WEATHER UPDATE RIDGE of High Pressure Area (HPA) extending across Northern Luzon. The whole country will experience partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening. Light to moderate winds blowing from the East to Southeast will prevail over Extreme Northern Luzon and coming from the Northeast over the rest of the country. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be light to moderate.
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