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+ February 25, 2021 The Philippines has 1,802 new coronavirus infections reported on average each day, according to Reuters. In the last seven days, the infection rate was 11 per 100,000 people.
We are without doubt huge contributors to this worrisome number. Our daily average of new cases during the last seven days in the province and the cities of Cebu, Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue has exceeded 400, nearly a quarter of the national total.
Cebu City has the worst record, owning more than half of that total figure. We are back to being the sick city of the country after a brief glorious moment of being hailed as the model for containing the spread of the Covid-19 disease. As a friend wryly noted in a WhatsApp chat, Cebu tops again.
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The framed faces of Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King Jr., Cardinal Wilton Gregory, John Lewis, Barack Obama, Rosa Parks and Mahalia Jackson and other notable Americans of African American descent are the first thing Most Holy Redeemer parishioners will see when they arrive for Mass this month.
The regal display honoring Black culture during Black History Month Feb. 1-March 1, was an “intentional teaching tool” in a parish with less than a half-dozen Black members, said Mercy Sister Marilyn Morgan.
“Our parish has often been introspective, and we wanted to focus outside of ourselves on racism,” said Sister Morgan, who designed the display.
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Contributed photo February 11, 2021 MOST Reverend Pablo Virgilio David, bishop of Kalookan, will be the featured speaker in the first of a lecture series sponsored by Holy Angel University’s Center for Kapampangan Studies to mark the Year of St. Joseph.
The Anloagui Lecture Series, named after the Kapampangan word for “carpenter,” will explore the saint’s various titles in the Catholic Church, such as patron saint of husbands, of workers, of foster parents, and of people wishing for a happy death.
Bishop David’s online lecture is titled “St. Joseph: A Tender and Loving Father, A Father in the Shadows.” It will be held on the saint’s feast day itself, March 19, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. Details of registration, which is free and open to the general public, will be announced later.
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