One thing that has not been highlighted in the reports and discussions that have been going on these past several months regarding the Hamas attack on Israel last October 7 and the subsequent retaliation by Israeli forces has been the respective ideologies of the two opposing groups. On the one hand, Hamas, like other Islamic […]
The Dysfunctional States of America…or as CNN put it, the Fractured States of America. The US is so polarized that it is embarrassing. A country that is supposed to be the bastion of Democracy, that presents itself as the model that other democratic nations should emulate, instead has politicians acting like children, interested mainly in […]
Right after completing my University studies, I went to one of the predominantly Muslim provinces in the Philippines, the province of Sulu, to teach in one of the 3 colleges there in the capital town of Jolo, the Notre Dame of Jolo College. As a fresh graduate who had lived for all of his life […]
It is probably safe to say that not too many people think about death often and that most would consider it odd or even “morbid” to talk about dying. You would probably receive quizzical looks from your companions (at the very least) if you tried to raise the matter as a topic of conversation in […]
I moved to Canada in 2011, along with my wife and youngest daughter. We had been sponsored by our eldest daughter who migrated to Canada some 8 years earlier. In the slightly more than a decade that we have been here we have lived in the Greater Toronto Area. During this time, we have encountered […]
My youngest daughter just gave birth to a girl last June. We live together in one home – 7 of us representing 3 generations of our family: grandparents, daughters, grandchildren and a son-in-law. Hence, I have been able to see first-hand what my daughter went through, carrying her baby in her womb for 9 months […]