Pacquiao Preaches Before Marbel Priests

ARCHDIOCESE OF COTABATO

On 13 March 2012 (Tuesday), World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao will preach to the priests of the Diocese of Marbel in South Cotabato during their regualar annual recollection. He will be talking about the importance of the Bible and how his spiritual experience and the Bible has changed him.

This came after bishops of the Catholic Church in the country attested to his transformation after his spiritual exprience in November 2011, which led to his close involvement in Bible studies thereafter.

After his fight with Mexican challenger Juan Manuel Marquez last year, Pacquio dreamed of walking in a  beautiful forest when a bright light shone on him. And a voice asked him: "Son, why are you going away from me?"

Pacquiao had also left gambling for good.

Sources

Philip C. Tubeza: "2 bishops attest to Pacquiao being a 'changed man'" Philippine Daily Inquirer 10 March 2012 [Read]

Quake Death Toll: Blame Human Negligence

ARCHDIOCESE OF CEBU

Archbishop Jose Palma, also current head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, said that it is human negligence in implementing infrastructure projects and the building code that must be blamed for the destruction left in Negros Occidental by the earthquake left on 6 February 2012. In a sense, had the government prevented substandard infrastructures in our roads and ensured compliance of the Building Code, the roads and bridges would have withstood the 5.9-strong quake, and the houses remained standing thereafter. [Read Report]

Our Lady Saved "Walk" Participants from Rain

IT COULD have been a wet "Walk of Mary" at dawn today as heavy rains poured down on Cebu City. At around four in the morning, just before the procession starts from Fuente Osmena Circle on its way to Basilica Del Sto. Nino, the rain stopped. [READ REPORT]