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Reading 1 and//www.usccb.org/bible/zephaniah/3:14 ZEP 3:14-18A Shout for joy, O daughter Zion!Sing joyfully, O Israel!Be glad and exult with all your heart,O daughter Jerusalem!The LORD has removed the judgment against youhe has turned away your enemiesthe King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst,you have no further misfortune to fear.On that day, it shall be said to JerusalemandFear not, O Zion, be not discouraged!The LORD, your God, is in your midst,a mighty saviorhe will rejoice over you with gladness,and renew you in his

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1. MAHIGIT sampung oras na brownout,
naranasan ng mga taga-Cotabato City at karatig lugar

2. Pagsasaayos sa pinabagsak na Tower
ng NGCP sa Aleosan, North Cotabato, posibleng aabutin pa ng ilang araw

3. Kontribusyon sa Philhealth maari
nang bayaran sa mga piling LGUs sa
rehiyon dose

4. Duterte-Cayetano tandem, dadalaw sa North Cotabato

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COTABATO CITY – Supply of electricity to dozens of Central Mindanao towns and Cotabato City was restored noontime Friday following a 15-hour outage due to the destruction by saboteurs of a power relay pylon in Aleosan, North Cotabato.Unidentified menon Thursday night toppled down Tower 68 of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in Barangay Pagangan in Aleosan town by setting off explosives they strapped on its four angular columns, detonated from a distance using mobile phones.An NGCP advisory issued at 12:30 saidand At 12 noon, NGCP energized the Tacurong-Sultan Kudara

COTABATO CITY - The scheduled 12-hour power interruption in North Cotabato's first district announced by the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) has been called off.Melfrance Bambi Capulong, speaking for NGCP Southern Mindanao, said the scheduled preventive maintenance of 138K Kabacan-Simuay line was cancelled.NGCP earlier set 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. power interruption in PPALMA area due to the preventive maintenance works.She said instead, NGCP field workers will work on the bombed Steel Tower No. 68 in Pagangan, Aleosan, North Cotabato.

COTABATO CITY - Total blackout hits the franchise area of Cotabato Light and Power Company, including part of North Cotabato and Maguindanao after one of the transmission towers of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) was toppled in Pagangan, Aleosan.NGCP Steel Tower No. 68 was bombed, using improvised explosive device,by still unidentified men, Aleosan Mayor Vicente Sorupia Jr said.He said residents in Barangay Pagangan heard loud explosions at about 9:20 p.m.

MANILA -– Malacanang on Thursday denied reports that President Benigno Aquino III has offered Php1.5 billion worth of projects to congressmen in exchange of the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).The offer was allegedly made to the 150 congressmen who attended a luncheon meeting in Malacanang last Tuesday.According to the reports, the solons have declined the offer and instead asked a whopping P20 million in cash for every congressman who will vote for the BBL passage.”That allegation is not true,” Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Village officials in Tulunan, North Cotabato blamed fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for the attack on Tuesday that left six people dead, three of them were Ilonggo farmers. According to Chairman Satorre of Barangay Maybula in Tulunan, the attackers were supporters and sympathizers of the 109thbase command of the MILF stationed in Columbio, Sultan Kudarat.He even named the commander as a certain Commander Abbas. But the MILF central leadership, reports said, did not sanction the attack.

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/isaiah/41:13 IS 41:13-20 I am the LORD, your God,who grasp your right handIt is I who say to you, Fear not,I will help you.”Fear not, O worm Jacob,O maggot IsraelI will help you, says the LORDyour redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.I will make of you a threshing sledge,sharp, new, and double-edged,To thresh the mountains and crush them,to make the hills like chaff.When you winnow them, the wind shall carry them offand the storm shall scatter them.But you shall rejoice in the LORD,and glory in the Holy One of Israel.The afflicted and the needy seek wat

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Fire hits two houses in Notre Dame village, Rosary Heights 8, Cotabato City t 7 a.m. today