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COTABATO CITY -- For local folks, among the priorities of incoming president Rodrigo Duterte should be how to fix feudal Moro politics, where some losers never concede and can even readily escalate rivalries into bloody clan wars that are so destructive.So extreme is politics in the country’s southernmost areas that even relatives of politicians in the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) usually gets dragged into deadly political competitions, where feuding camps each have maratabat” they often wrongly stand up to at all cost.Maratabat is

COTABATO CITY – Three ordinary men with extraordinary devotion to Mother Mary officially becomes priests Saturday at San Vicente Ferrer Parish in Antipas, North Cotabato.To be ordained as priests are Rev. Rey Emmanuel Amancio, OMI, Rev. Alvin Vicente C. Barretto, OMI, and Rev. Mark Yoniz C. Beley, OMI. sand//scontent.fmnl4-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13232942_10154787358828056_3271046317263709228_n.jpg?oh=5ef0ed42584251729a1639943935f026andampoe=57AC2771 (L-R -Reverend Alvin Barreto, Rev. Mark Yoniz Beley and Rev.

COTABATO CITY --- Threatened by criminal suit, partisans who picketed at the Shariff Kabunsuan Complex here to prevent the transfer in Buluan town of the canvassing of election results from Maguindanao province dispersed Tuesday, ending a 24-hour standoff that caused public inconvenience.Sources from the Commission in Elections on Wednesday confirmed that the canvassing activities in Buluan, capital town of Maguindanao, will proceed as programmed.Comelec officials said the proclamation of the winning candidates for provincial elective posts shall be done, barring legal impediments, as soon

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/acts/20:28 ACTS 20:28-38 At Miletus, Paul spoke to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesusand Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flockof which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers,in which you tend the Church of Godthat he acquired with his own Blood.I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you,and they will not spare the flock.And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truthto draw the disciples away after them.So be vigilant and remember t

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/acts/20:17 ACTS 20:17-27 From Miletus Paul had the presbytersof the Church at Ephesus summoned.When they came to him, he addressed them, You know how I lived among youthe whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia.I served the Lord with all humilityand with the tears and trials that came to mebecause of the plots of the Jews,and I did not at all shrink from telling youwhat was for your benefit,or from teaching you in public or in your homes.I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeksto repentance before God and to faith in our L

Presidential aspirant SenatorGrace Poe has conceded to Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte shortly before midnight Monday.Duterte said Poe called him and extend her congratulatory message.In a hastily called news conference aired live on natonal media, Poe said she believed the people have spoken.

COTABATO CITY -– Three grenade explosions
rocked the town hall of Sultan Mastura, Maguindanao Monday afternoon but voting
was not interrupted, police saidtoday.

Senior Insp. Ronald de Leon, spokesperson for police
in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PNP-ARMM), said the rifle grenade
attacks came in succession at past 1 p.m.

Nobody was reported hurt..

Voting in nearby Sultan Mastura Elementary School in
Barangay Tapayan, Sultan Mastura continued despite the incident. Soldiers and police are securing the voting
center.

DATU UNSAY, Maguindanao ---- Powerful explosions rocked three Maguindanao towns Sunday night, but the bombings did not hamper the conduct of today’s elections in the affected towns.
A farmer, Habiri Katapukan, was killed on the spot when a 40 millimeter shoulder-fire projectile, fired from a distance, hit his shanty in west of Datu Unsay town in Maguindanao.
Rifle grenades also landed in isolated areas in Maguindanao’s Shariff Aguak and Pagalungan towns.

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/acts/19:1 ACTS 19:1-8 While Apollos was in Corinth,Paul traveled through the interior of the countryand down to Ephesus where he found some disciples.He said to them, Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?”They answered him, We have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”He said, How were you baptized?”They replied, With the baptism of John.”Paul then said, John baptized with a baptism of repentance,telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him,that is, in Jesus.”When they heard this,they were baptized

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/acts/1and1 ACTS 1and1-11 In the first book, Theophilus,I dealt with all that Jesus did and taughtuntil the day he was taken up,after giving instructions through the Holy Spiritto the apostles whom he had chosen.He presented himself alive to themby many proofs after he had suffered,appearing to them during forty daysand speaking about the kingdom of God.While meeting with them,he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem,but to wait for the promise of the Fatherabout which you have heard me speak