What a sad Christmas season this is for the peace-loving peoples of the world. Devastating wars are being waged, most notably, today, in Palestine and Ukraine. Soldiers are dying, civilians are suffering and dying too, and there seems to be no power on earth that will stop the gunfire.
By DEE AYROSO
Three Facebook postings I read on Christmas eve tugged at my heart and triggered in my mind parallel and kindred recollections and sympathetic responses. First was that of Sonora, my elder daughter (Nona to her friends, Ningning to our family) who has lived in Sweden with her daughter Ariana since 1992. Addressing her friends “who…
Two girls dream of a wonderful Christmas, the kind that has been deprived of them and of many other children. (Commonwealth Market, Quezon City) Photo By Pom Cahilog-Villanueva (Bulatlat.com)
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
According to the Center for Women’s Resources, from October 2010 to October the prices of many, if not all, commodities increased substantially.
NI MARK ANGELES Inilathala ng Bulatlat Bahaw ang kalantog ng latang tambol Maingit ang kalansing ng mga yuping tansan Malat ang tinig ng mga nangangaroling “Pasensiya na kayo, kami rin ay namamasko…” Meri, Meri Krisismas! Maasim na ang ipinamudmod na hamonado Inaamag na ang makunat na binolang keso Lumalangoy sa sabaw ang fruit salad Natusta…
By Grace S. Uddin davaotoday.com DAVAO CITY — While busy falling in line along with other children to get his share of porridge, Rickmon, 11, recalled why he was sent to the SOS Children’s Village to live with the other children he didn’t even know. “I was so thin my parents sent me here,” he…