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MANILA -– President Benigno Aquino III on Monday highlighted in his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) the long list of achievements of his administration that has even eclipsed the feat of his predecessor.Feeling slightly ill, the President arrived at 3:35 p.m. and skipped the traditional walk but welcomed by Senate President Franklin Drilon and House Speaker Feliciano Sonny Belmonte Jr.The President entered the Batasang Pambansa session hall at exactly 4 p.m.

MANILA - Another tiniwalag (expelled) minister of Iglesia ni Cristo today corroborated the claims of Nathaniel Angel Manalo of rampant corruption inside the most influential religious group in the country. Corruption thrive in the highest echelon of INC, ex-minister Isaias SamsonJr. said in Filipino as reported by print, radio and TV news outfits.Samson, former editor in chief of the INC's official publication Pasugo, said he was a personal witness to the corrupt practicessuch asirregular use of the church funds.

MANILA (PNA) -- The national government’s interest in probing the recent controversy involving members of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) is limited to verifying whether a crime has indeed been committed, Malacañang said Saturday.Speaking over Radyo ng Bayan, Undersecretary Abigail Valte said both the Department of Justice and the Philippine National Police are already looking into the matter, amid reports that the INC is in possession of high-caliber guns, which it allegedly used to intimidate ministers who are critical of its current leadership.

COTABATO CITY - A man lost P76,000 cash to a robbery suspect who appeared to have knowledge thathe was carrying huge amount of cash.Johnny Suarez, 30, a resident of Poblacion 8,Midsayap, North Cotabato and works in an appliance store as collector, was driving his red Honda motorbike when flagged down by the suspect in a highway in Barangay Binoligan, Kidapawan City.The suspects gestured he knew Suarez so he pulled over as the man approached him at 7 a.m. Friday.

MAMASAPANO, Maguindanao (July 24)- A day before the6th month anniversary of the bloody Mamasapano carnage, tension has gripped the village of Tukanalipao after a rifle grenade fired from nowhere landed near a house Thursday night.Norodin Madsig, farmer and resident of Barangay Tukanalipao, said the rifle grenade landed and went off about 10 meters away from his house.Nobody was hurt but the incident sent jitters among Madsig family and his neighbors.Madsig recalled that he was fixing his motorbike at past 9 p.m. when a loud explosion occurred.

Allegations of massive corruption and other
irregularities rocked the country’s second largest religious group, the son of
its founding chair revealed in social media Friday.

Felix Nathaniel Angel” Manalo, one of the sons of
Iglesia ni Kristo (INC) executive minister Eraño, posted a video on Youtube.com
revealing that the most influential religious group has been
embroiled with massive financial anomalies since his elder brother Eddie” took
the helm in 2009.

COTABATO CITY - A retired jail guard was shot dead by still unidentified gunmen a remote village here Wednesday night.Police identified the victim as Mohammad Mamocao, 48, former jail officer of the Maguindanao provincial detention facility.Mamocao was about to close his variety store in Buaya-buaya, Barangay Kalanganan, Cotabato City at10 p.m. when three men arrived on a motorbike.Without provocation, the gunmen armed with cal.

Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/exodus/14:5 EX 14:5-18 When it was reported to the king of Egyptthat the people had fled,Pharaoh and his servants changed their minds about them.They exclaimed, What have we done!Why, we have released Israel from our service!”So Pharaoh made his chariots ready and mustered his soldiersBsix hundred first-class chariotsand all the other chariots of Egypt, with warriors on them all.So obstinate had the LORD made Pharaohthat he pursued the children of Israeleven while they were marching away in triu

KORONADAL CITY – Suspected extortionist planted an improvised bomb inside a Yellow Bus in South Cotabato but an alertcivilian helped prevent what could be a bloody Saturday when he alerted the driver and conductor of his unusual discovery.”

SHARIFF AGUAK,
Maguindanao (July 18) – Former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr, the primary
suspect in the infamous Maguindanao massacre, was laid to his final resting
place.

Andal Sr, who
succumbed to liver cancer Friday evening at the National Kidney Transplant
Institute (NKTI), was buried at the back of his residential home here with
close family members, relatives and supporter-friends in attendance.

The media were
barred from entering the compound during the burial.