Philippines Correspondent for The Straits Times | AJF ‘21 fellow | UNRAF ‘23 fellow | 📥 [email protected] | Views are my own.
Mara Cepeda
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Voted early today as a journalist!
I’m standing with leaders who choose honesty, justice, and the common good — those who listen, and fight the right battles with us.
Vote wisely, folks! Damay-damay tayong lahat dito 🇵🇭
LOOK: The US’ anti-ship Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) missile system arrives in northern PH on April 26 for the maritime key terrain security operations, part of the Balikatan exercises between American and Filipino troops.
📸 LtC John Paul Salgado
What first caught my eye was the chaos – books everywhere, piled like memories. In a quiet corner in PH’s business district, Mang Nanie offers something rare: a place to read, to belong, and to believe in stories again.
Here’s the story of Mang Nanie.
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What did 2022 teach us? A purist mindset loses elections. Politics is addition. Strategic alliances aren’t always pretty – but that’s how you win.
I’ve wrestled with my faith, wounded by archaic teachings & scandals that rocked the Catholic Church.
But Pope Francis made me believe again.
Even when the Church felt distant, he stayed close to the least, the lost & the doubting.
Maraming salamat.
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A Jesuit Pope always felt right. Pope Francis walked with the poor, the queer, the women, the cast aside. He faced fire among the conservatives, but he never wavered. He's a moral compass in a dark, chaotic world.
Rest easy, Lolo Kiko. Thank you for giving us hope.
