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Come, join us celebrate 2026 June 5 World Environment Day!
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - June 4, 2026 - 12:00am
Climate action is June 15, 2026’s World Environment Day theme.
No to cutting of 617 trees on Quirino Avenue!
by Charry Ballescas - May 28, 2026 - 12:00am
We could not, we refused to believe that DENR has authorized the cutting of 617 trees, 200 of these decades-old, for the Southern Access Link Expressway project along the Quirino Avenue segment with a span of 3.97...
Road maps for continuing crises
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - May 21, 2026 - 12:00am
We live in a world with continuing, simultaneous, multiple crises.
Amidst uncertainty and fear: Mama Mary’s message
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - May 14, 2026 - 12:00am
Yesterday, May 13, was the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima – a blissful commemoration of the first appearance of Mama Mary to Francisco and Jacinta Marto and their cousin Sister Lucia dos Santos at the Cova...
Busy week here in Cebu
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - May 7, 2026 - 12:00am
From May 6-8, simultaneous significant events will be held in various areas of Cebu.
On WTE
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - May 2, 2026 - 12:00am
Sharing this refreshingly reflective/informative April 28th speech on WTE of Ms. Xandrine Kristianne Rodriguez, a Cebuana law student, artist, and rights advocate.
Partnerships for protecting our Earth, our people!
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - April 30, 2026 - 12:00am
Nearly 60 schoolchildren/participants were asked to come early to enjoy the morning sun’s gentle touch during the 2026 Earth Day Coastal Cleaning in Tayud, Consolacion last Saturday/April 25, a joint project...
Protecting Earth, our common home!
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - April 23, 2026 - 12:00am
2026 Earth Day theme – “Our Power, Our Planet”- reminds us how we, humans, can unite together, protect our Earth/our common home!
Will rewards for waste segregators work?  
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - April 15, 2026 - 12:00am
The dumpsites/incomplete, pseudo-landfills testify to the role of humans in creating smokey garbage mountains locally, globally.
Our Holy Week journey with God
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - April 2, 2026 - 12:00am
Today, Holy Thursday, we join our Lord Jesus Christ through His Last Supper with His disciples, His agony and arrest in the Garden.
State of global and local emergency
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - March 26, 2026 - 12:00am
How long or how the present Middle East (ME) crisis will proceed remains uncertain.
Solusyon sa basura?
by Cherry Ballescas - March 19, 2026 - 12:00am
KITANG TANAN... ATONG KAMOT... ATONG PANINGKAMOT!!
Dear God, grant our world Your peace!
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - March 12, 2026 - 12:00am
More than ever, we all need to unite to pray for peace, for God’s peace, to reign in the hearts of all people/all countries throughout the world.
For whom the bells toll?
by Cherry Piquero-Ballescas - February 26, 2026 - 12:00am
Yesterday, February 25, did you hear the bells toll throughout all the churches of the Cebu Archdiocese at 3 P.M?
2026 Ash Wednesday and Lent
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - February 19, 2026 - 12:00am
Yesterday, February 18, the whole of Christendom observed Ash Wednesday which signaled the start of Lent (Quadragesima in Latin and Cuaresma in Spanish), the 40 days before the Easter Triduum.
February 11 - Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - February 12, 2026 - 12:00am
 On this day, 168 years ago, at Lourdes, France, “the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a poor/uneducated/physically frail young girl whose family lived on the margins of society and...
We can all do this sustainably!
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - February 5, 2026 - 12:00am
Congratulations to Mayor Nestor Archival and all those who cooperated, joined his 2026 February alternative waste management campaign: no waste segregation/no waste collection and more effective/faster market waste...
Demand more healthcare benefits!
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - January 29, 2026 - 12:00am
While we appreciate the added benefits extended by PhilHealth to Filipinos, our people deserve more, given the billions PhilHealth still has to restore, return for better health service for our people.
January 16 – A day of mourning for Binaliw victims
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - January 15, 2026 - 12:00am
We join the Archdiocese of Cebu and the Cebu City Government in remembering the Binaliw victims for the “Day of Mourning” this Friday, January 16, 2026. As of January 14 morning, 18 deaths have...
2026 budget: For whom?
by Cherry Piquero Ballescas - January 8, 2026 - 12:00am
Malacaπang claimed that the 2026 General Appropriations Act is “the “cleanest and most proper” spending law passed.”
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