Healing priest touches San Carlos crowd

Stampede! Relentless crowd rushes to the stage at the City Auditorium and fight their way up for the healing touch of Rev. Fr. Fernando M. Suarez. Youth volunteers of the Charismatic Movement struggle to form a human barricade to prevent a stampede.  

She had totally given up on medicines and her parents had brought her home from Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City.

She has kidney disease that caused her stomach to bloat and she tested positive of lupus.

On August 2, Thursday, Miriam's parents took her again from their home in Caticlan, Barangay Rizal and brought her, not to a hospital this time, but to the City Auditorium that the 18-year old may receive healing from God through Rev. Fr. Fernando M. Suarez.

On a folding bed at the foot of the stage Miriam was sprawled, an oxygen tank by her side delivering the aid to her shallow breathing. But this girl's abject sickness did not elicit the mercy of the desperate crowd that rushed, stampede-like, to the stage to be touched by Fr. Suarez.

The event drew around 5,000 believers, some searched for physical cure while others hoped for spiritual healing, as could be read from their name tags. And little did the organizers from the San Carlos Diocese Service Committee, Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement knew that the crowd would be so unbending to pleas for order and discipline.

New SK Pres takes oath

New Sangguniang Kabataan Federation President took oath before City Mayor Gerardo Valmayor, Jr.

Kayezelle Marie E. Durano, 17, a sophomore information technology student and the SK Chairperson of Barangay III took her oath and officially started her term as SK President after Lady Lehi Lambayong was urged to resign.

Healing us

No Baby Talk

By Georgene Rhena P. Quilaton-Tambiga

It was astounding.

I am referring both to Fr. Fernando Suarez' audacity on God's healing power and his being an effective instrument.

But it was unnerving.

This time I am referring to our people's utter lack of discipline and their despicable desperation. I know, I know that I could be hurting some hearts by nailing this in the head but there is no other way of saying it. I and two friends were perched on three plastic chairs, trapped and shoved, and almost bribed, by the relentless stampede of people who refuse to understand simple instructions.

Sports for all

Friendly Observer

By Arthur Keefe

I am writing from the UK, which is currently in the grip of Olympic fever! Blanket coverage of every event in every sport is available, with 24 options on interactive TV. It is then all summarised on every news bulletin on TV and Radio.

I love watching, and have no objection to any of this.

What is clear is that a small minority of the 204 nations taking part will bag a large majority of the medals, mostly those from the West and China.

Command responsibility

Soldier's Pen

By BGen. Alexander Cabales (Ret.)

We were third year cadets of the Philippine Military Academy when we had these visits to the different major units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.  We call it the Major Service Orientation Tour and is normally conducted in the summer before the academic period of our junior year.  This program was designed to help us to choose as to which service component of the AFP we would like to join after graduation.

Kaulaw sa?

Pikpik sa Abaga

By Henry Sandoval

Walay gi arang ang atong kapulisan sa San Carlos kung adunay mga report nga dunay illegal nga mga lihok nga gihimo sa kabukiran ug dinhi sa siyudad.

Usa ka ehemplo ang nahitabo sa Sitio Sowa, Barangay Quezon. Sa kabukiran gidakop ang oling nga atua nahimutang sa maong dapit. Bali 210 ka sako nga oling ang naimbargo sa kapulisan tungod sa paglapas sa Section 77 of P.D. 705 as amended. Ang mga oling nakuha gikan sa propriedad nila ni Apolinario Gacang, lumad sa maong sitio, ug nakuhaan ug 65 ka sako, Asuncion Fajardo, taga Sitio Burlad, 70 ka sako, Asuncion Fajardo Pansoy, Sitio Burlad, 60 ka sako, ug Renato Eredera, taga Sitio Habuyo, 26 ka sako nga mga oling ang nasaktmit. Ang mga sinako nga oling nga mi suma total ug 210 ka sako gipalit kini ni Fortunato Canas, taga dalan Carmona, niining siyudad.

Usbaw sa pensiyon

Bantay Banat

Ni Rics Cañisarez

Kinsa man gud ang dili malipay nga mga pensiyonado sa Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) kay sugod sa bulan sa Enero tuig 2013 ang ilang pensiyon pasaka-an na.

Sigon ni Robert G. Vergara, ang presidente ug general manager sa GSIS nga gi-aprobahan na ni Presidente Noynoy Aquino ang umento sa minimum monthly benefits para sa mga old age and disability pensioners sa P 5,000 kada bulan. Sa samang higayon kadtong mga pensioners nga nagdawat ug mobo pa sa P 5,000 kada bulan, sugod sa tuig 2013 makadawat na sa minimum. Kadtong nagdawat ug kapin sa P 5,000 hangtod P 8,000 hatagan ug extra nga bale P 200 ang bulan.