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MARAWI CITY -- Suspected partisans on Thursday night blasted a fragmentation grenade at the residential compound here of the reelectionist Vice Mayor Arafat Salic.His relatives blamed rival camps for the attack, which was for them meant to spark violence for the Commission on Elections to have reason to put the entire Marawi City under its full control on May 9.Responding investigators from the Marawi City police said the explosion inside the home yard of Salic damaged vehicles parked near the spot where the grenade landed and went off.Salic is the running mate of former Marawi City Mayor S

Reading 1 and//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 speakfor John baptized with water,but in a few days you will

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/acts/15:22 ACTS 15:22-31 The Apostles and presbyters, in agreement with the whole Church,decided to choose representativesand to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.The ones chosen were Judas, who was called Barsabbas,and Silas, leaders among the brothers.This is the letter delivered by themand The Apostles and the presbyters, your brothers,to the brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Ciliciaof Gentile originand greetings.Since we have heard that some of our numberwho went out without any mandat

MAKILALA, North Cotabato --
Communist rebels disguised as soldiers snatched early Thursday Army Private 1stClass Eduardo Hilaga, Jr.
while biking through a stretch of a highway in Makilala, North Cotabato.

MANILA - Fr. Romeo Villanueva, OMI on Saturday left a hospital where he has been confined due to cancer and celebrated mass with fellow Oblates of Mary Immaculate priests, friends and family members.Fr. Villanueva, more known as Fr. Villy, has presided over a mass to celebrate his 50th Sacerdotal Jubilee at the Birhen ng Lourdes Parish in Bagong Barrio, Caloocan City. sand//scontent.fmnl4-5.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/13000185_10209247073319033_3311177122565987288_n.jpg?oh=e1587d6be0501da3062f1b7b572d2ee6andampoe=57B7F594 (Fr. Celoy Andamon,OMI, assisted Fr.

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/acts/9:31 ACTS 9:31-42 The Church throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samariawas at peace.She was being built up and walked in the fear of the Lord,and with the consolation of the Holy Spirit she grew in numbers.As Peter was passing through every region,he went down to the holy ones living in Lydda.There he found a man named Aeneas,who had been confined to bed for eight years, for he was paralyzed.Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you.

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/acts/8:26 ACTS 8:26-40 The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, Get up and head south on the roadthat goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.”So he got up and set out.Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch,a court official of the Candace,that is, the queen of the Ethiopians,in charge of her entire treasury,who had come to Jerusalem to worship, and was returning home.Seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.The Spirit said to Philip, Go and join up with that chariot.”Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, D

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A busted front tire triggered a highway mishap in President Roxas, North Cotabato which resulted injuries to 12 persons, including a pregnant mother and a child, police said today.Chief InspectorRommy Castañares, Pres. Roxas town police chief, the victims were on board a van (XFM-665)heading to Gen.

The Office of the Ombudsman found it
scientifically impossible” for a local government unit to spend diesel fuel
worth P2.4 million for heavy equipment in just two days of road maintenance
operation, print and broadcast media outfits reported.

In its press statement, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio
Morales said her office found probable cause to charge North Cotabato Gov.
Emmylou Talino-Mendoza for illegally procuring P2.4 million worth of diesel
from a gasoline owned by her mother, Noemi Talino, in 2010.

COTABATO CITY – Alert members of
government forces, acting on a tip from an informant, arrested three armed men
from inside a van in front of a mall here Friday night.

Colonel Ranulfo Sevilla, commander of the 5th
Army Special Forces Battalion, told DXMS-AM Radyo Bida thatlaw enforcers, led by the Criminal Investigation
and Detection Group (CIDG) backed by Special Forces soldiers, flagged down a
heavily-tinted Toyota Hi-Ace van inside Mall of Al Nor compound at 7 p.m.