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Antique honors ‘Lola Masing,’ comfort woman

SAN JOSE, Antique – She was born on Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Concepcion and died on April 6, a Good Friday. Through most of her 78 years, Tomasa Dioso Salinog or “Lola Masing” suffered in silence, carrying a cross brought upon her by a war she would rather forget but could not. […]

Waiting to be read…

BOOM! is a story that echoes the weeping of the seas subjected to dynamite fishing. Using sound as anchor, 5thgrader Jared Pedroso of Tina Elementary School in Iloilo Province moved on to tell his story of how a father learned from his son in conserving the bounty of the seas. It is written in Hiligaynon.
Mimas […]