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COTABATO CITY - After 20 days, Ishmael Micky Imam Glang, a 27-year-old tarpaulin designer who went missing, has been found.The remains of Micky was found inside a sack along a riverinLugay-Lugay ditrict, Barangay Bagua 1, Cotabato City at 10 a.m. Monday.Police believed he has been dead for several days. His decomposing remains was fished out by villagers and family members.Family members identified him through his shirts and shorts, the clothes he had when he was last seen on September 8.

MANILA, Philippines – Gilas Pilipinas will play Japan at 4:45 p.m. Sunday as the Filipino cagers face tougher competition in the second round of the FIBA Asia Championship today in Chnagsha, Hunan, China.In a statement,www. fiba .com/ asia /2015, said will be facing three teams that also advanced from Group A. These are Iran, the reigning FIBA Asia champion, India and Japan.Gilas has a 1-1 record with the victory against Kuwait was not included in its win-loss record because Kuwait was already eliminated before bowing to RP squad.On Monday, Gilas faces undefeated Iran at 11:45 a.m.

KORONADAL CITY - To contain the seemingly rising cases of illegal drug use and pushing in Banga, South Cotabato, the local PNP has intensified its campaign through education and information dissemination.A drug symposium was held Friday inBarangay Lamba, Banga, South
Cotabato with more than 100 youth in attendance.Police Senior

MANILA -- President Benigno S. Aquino III on Friday wished the country’s Muslim community a meaningful celebration of Eid’l Adha. Let solidarity, tranquility, and clarity of purpose prevail over you on this solemn occasion, as you ruminate on Ibrahim’s tale that reveals unwavering, empowering faith and the tenacity of the human spirit,” the President said in his message to the Muslim community.Eid’l Adha, or the Muslim Day of Sacrifice, commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to follow Allah’s (God’s) command to sacrifice his son.

TANTANGAN, South Cotabato -- Local officials have placed a remote village here under state of calamity following an outbreak of dysentery that downed 46 persons.Dr. Renato Ureta, Tantangan town health chief, said the village of New Iloilo had been cordoned off to prevent contaminated water from getting into residential houses after the number of persons hospitalized rose today to 46 from 36 on Thursday. This is to prevent villagers from taking the contaminated, Ureta told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida.

COTABATO CITY - Thousands of Muslim faithful joined the early morning congregational prayer in observance of Eud'l Adha at the Cotabato City Central Pilot Elementary School grounds Thursday morning.Due to huge number of attendees, many participants stayed up to portions of Sinsuat Avenue, Cotabato City.It has been declared Muslim holiday in Cotabato City and ARMM today, Sept. 24 in observance of the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice.Malacanang has earlier declared Sept. 25, Friday, a national Muslim holiday in observance of Eud'l Adha.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -Journalists from North Cotabato commemorated on Wednesday the 70thmonth of the Maguindanao massacre with a candle lighting ceremony and offering of prayers for the repose of the souls of the victims of the most gruesome crime in the Philippines’ history. The journalists, all members of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) Cotabato chapter, lighted 58 candles as symbols of the lives lost during the massacre. They vowed ‘never to forget’ the crime and would continue to seek justice for the victims, 32 of them journalists.

MANILA -- Murder charges were filed on Tuesday before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against 90 suspects in connection with the Mamasapano incident that claimed the lives of 44 members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) on Jan. 25, 2015.In a press conference, DOJ Secretary Leila M.

DAVAO CITY (PNA) -- Police are pursuing unidentified men who abducted two Canadian nationals and a Filipina at Ocean View Resort, Island Garden City of Samal,Davao del NorteMonday night.Police identified the victims as CanadiansJohn Ridsdel, Robert Halland Kjartan Sikkengstad, owner of Ocean's View resort.Capt. Alberto Caber, the regional military spokesperson,said four unidentified armed men stormed the Ocean View Resort at around 11:41 p.m.

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/ephesians/4and1 EPH 4and1-7, 11-13 Brothers and sistersandI, a prisoner for the Lord,urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received,with all humility and gentleness, with patience,bearing with one another through love,striving to preserve the unity of the Spiritthrough the bond of peaceandone Body and one Spirit,as you were also called to the one hope of your callone Lord, one faith, one baptismone God and Father of all,who is over all and through all and in all.But grace was given to each of usaccording to the measure of Christ’s gi