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Philippines marks 35th People Power Revolution anniversary
Well-known priests stage Way of the Cross protest against extrajudicial killings 35 years after fall of Marcos
From left, Fathers Villanueva, Reyes and Alejo lead the Way of the Cross in Manila on Feb. 24 to condemn extrajudicial killings and to mark the 35th anniversary of the People Power Revolution. (Photo supplied)
Churchmen in the Philippines, including the papal nuncio, have commemorated the 35th anniversary of the People Power Revolution that ousted dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
Millions of Catholics spearheaded by then Manila archbishop, Jaime Cardinal Sin, flocked to Epifanio De Los Santos Avenue (ESDA) in the capital between Feb. 22-25 of that year calling for the removal of the strongman.
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MAASIN CITY, Feb. 23 (PIA) The alter ego of Pope Francis in the country will be breaking bread and wine through the Eucharist among the faithful in the island-town of Limasawa, to repeat a historic scene that first happened 500 years ago on an Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521.
Weather permitting and barring any other hitches, Archbishop Charles John Brown, the new papal ambassador in the country, is expected to grace the quincentennial event, along with other visiting bishops and priests, according to Fr. Johnrey Sibi, head of the diocesan committee overseeing the church-based activities.
Based on the advance itinerary obtained by PIA, the ecclesiastical guests are expected to arrive by sunrise in the morning on the day of the celebration, by plane at Maasin airport, and at about the same time the pilgrim image of the Sto. Nino de Cebu will dock at the port of Maasin.
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Nineteen days after the Quiapo phenomenon of more than 200,000 devotees turning out en masse to honor the Black Nazarene, we have yet to hear if superspreaders added to the transmission of COVID-19 cases in the NCR. Or if it’s simply a case of no news is good news.
The data streaming in show a definite uptick after the December holidays, but so far no one has connected any rise in numbers to the Jan. 9 fiesta in Quiapo. Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian attributed the five-fold increase (from 50 to 260) in his city to the merrymaking last Christmas. Manila, which until lately was more or less a regular in the Metro’s list of cities with a high rate of transmissions, has been behaving, in a manner of speaking, by staying out of the top five.