Pepe Bawagan

MANILA, Philippines—It was recently discovered that the Philippines is the world's most emotional country. This has sparked many violent reactions from...

Intramuros, Manila -- The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) held a review hearing yesterday for the party list "Ang Patay." The hearing ended...

Filipinos all across the globe have expressed disgust at a statement made by British stand-up comedian Josh Kayden during his recent show entitled "Callous" in Las Vegas.

I find it quite appalling that this kind of force-feeding, where dissent and diversity are brushed aside or unthinkingly dismissed, currently masquerades as education.

In case you haven't heard, there have been people protesting in New York since the 17th of September. (Yes, they've been there for more than a month now.)

Session time is secular time is precious time. And I can't think of a worse way to defend secularism than to argue in favor of accommodating all forms of religious expression altogether. If the members of senate were diverse enough to belong to 10 different religious sects, I wonder how many would still be in favor of hearing each and every one of their prayers before settling down to finally do what their constituents are actually paying them to do.

Earlier, the Bantay Bishop movement was jumpstarted with a march to the Senate. Our main objective was to push for fairness in the Senate's treatment of the bishops, particularly in response to certain senators' assurance that these men of the cloth would be coddled like scared little children.

I came across my Christian Living Education notebook from grade school, in which I found many failures of education written in my handwriting.

Given the many different failures that the current economic system has been producing recently, it's probably time to step back and look for their root causes.