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NPA raids Davao
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Ransack facility’s armory
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By Anthony Vargas, Reporter
Communist rebels posing as
soldiers on Sunday stormed the Davao Penal Colony prison facility
and took off with about a hundred guns, police said.
The raiders, believed to be
guerrillas of the New People’s Army, were wearing camouflage
uniforms with shoulder patches identifying them as members of
“Task Force Davao,” the Caraga police director, Chief Supt.
Andres Caro II, said in a report to Camp Crame.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Pope laments
world’s pain in Easter address
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VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI
decried the “suffering in the world” in his traditional Easter
address on Sunday, dwelling on the plight of many Africans and
despairing over the situation in Iraq.
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President plays
role of doting grandma
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President Arroyo played doting
grandmother to her grandchildren on Easter Sunday, treating them to
an egg hunt at the Skating Rink of the Baguio Country Club.
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10 killed in Army
camp shooting
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NINE soldiers and one civilian
were killed in what the military described as a “shooting
incident” inside an Army outpost in a remote village in Sulu early
Saturday.
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Herbalists scour
Siquijor’s forests to cure the incurable
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Feared by many for its sorcerers,
known locally as mambabarangs, the island has also earned a
reputation for the apparently incredible powers of its local
healers, or mananambals.
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SPECIAL REPORT
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State of the Catholic Church
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Is the Catholic
Church shrinking?
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The Americas maintained a
percentage of around 29.8 percent, while Oceania stayed stable, at
slightly over 1 percent of the world’s priests, according to the
communiqué.
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