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PARANG, Maguindanao – A 42-year-old man killed his 4-year-old grandson after he mistaken the child as tiyanak” on Sunday night while the town was experiencing power outages, police and suspect said.
A tiyanak” is a vampiric creature in Philippine mythology that imitates the form of a child.
The suspect, Orak Mantawil, was in total disbelief when interrogated at Parang Police Station. Full of remorse, he sought forgiveness from the child’s parents and his relatives.

PH wins historic back-to-back Miss Earth titlesand 24-year-old Angelia Ong of Manila, beat out 80 other national delegates in the 2015 Miss Earth coronation night held at Marx Halle in Vienna, Austria on Sunday (Sat in Manila)The other winners areandMiss Earth Fireand Thiessa Sickert of Brazil Miss Earth Waterand Brittany Payne of USAMiss Earth Airand Dayanna Grageda of Australia

COTABATO CITY
- The Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), the Archdiocese of Cotabato and Prelature
of Jolo mourned the tragic death of Fr. Jose Ante, OMI in a highway accident in
Matanao, Davao del Sur Friday.

Messages of
condolences poured as the news about Fr. Ante, more known as Fr. Joe,” spread
in the social media and the online news network of Notre Dame Broadcasting
Corporation Friday noon.

Many of those
who knew Fr. Joe were shocked and in disbelief as the news spread starting at
10 a.m.

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/isaiah/30:19 IS 30:19-21, 23-26 Thus says the Lord GOD,the Holy One of IsraelandO people of Zion, who dwell in Jerusalem,no more will you weepHe will be gracious to you when you cry out,as soon as he hears he will answer you.The Lord will give you the bread you needand the water for which you thirst.No longer will your Teacher hide himself,but with your own eyes you shall see your Teacher,While from behind, a voice shall sound in your earsand This is the way walk in it,”when you would turn to the right or to the left.He will give rain for the seedthat

COTABATO CITY -– A missionary priest who
has been serving war-torn Sulu for the past few years and once served as Oblates
of Mary Immaculate provincial superior, died in a vehicular accident in the
national highway in Matanao, Davao del Sur Friday, police said.

Fr. Jose Ante of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate died
expired at the Sinawilan Medical Clinic in Barangay Sinawingan, Matanao, Davao
del Sur at 9:30 a.m, according to Police Officer 2 Arturo Papas, traffic
investigator of Matanao PNP.

KORONADAL CITY - Their parents thought all along that they were in schools in Norala, South Cotabato until the police arrested their children andhauled them to police station for illegal drug use.The students, allminors were turned over to the local social welfare office as the law provides.Chief Inspector Dennis Madriaga, Norala police chief, told DXOM Radyo Bida that his office received a tip from concerned citizen about an on-going pot session in an old and abandoned rice mill in Purok Quirino Barangay Lopez Jaena, Norala Wednesday morning.Assessing the informant to becredible, Madriaga

Below is a statement of CPCP president Archbishop Socrates Villegas on presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on Monday. What the world desperately needs now is leadership by example. We have so many leaders in office and many more aspiring to sit in office but are they examples of good citizenship? If the leaders we choose are to be leaders for national progress they must be visionaries AND exemplary.Corruption is indeed a great scourge of Philippine politics.The usual face of corruption that we recognize easily is stealing from public funds.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -What was supposed to be a party time for two girls turned out to betragic when both died after they drowned in a river in Arakan town in North Cotabato on Monday. Superintendent Bernard Tayong, spokesman for the Cotabato Provincial Police Office (CPPO), said the girls, aged 13 and 14, were classmates who wanted to enjoy the holiday by getting a dip on the Tinanan River located in Sitio Valencia, Barangay Santo Nino in Arakan. Both drowning victims were pupils of the Meocan Elementary School in Barangay Meocan, also in Arakan.

COTABATO CITY - Netizens have lambasted presidential aspirant Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte for Pope-bashing over traffic in Metro Manila and for declaring he was a womanizer.Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop emeritus OscarCruz was first to score Duterte for his profanity laced speech after he was officially proclaimed as PDP-Laban presidential candidate in 2016 polls.

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/jeremiah/33:14 JER 33:14-16 The days are coming, says the LORD,when I will fulfill the promiseI made to the house of Israel and Judah.In those days, in that time,I will raise up for David a just shoot he shall do what is right and just in the land.In those days Judah shall be safeand Jerusalem shall dwell securethis is what they shall call herand The LORD our justice.” Responsorial Psalm and//usccb.org/bible/psalms/25and4 PS 25and4-5, 8-9, 10, 14 R. (1b)To you, O Lord, I lift my soul.