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Like Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, Our Lady Ina Poonbato has ethnic roots. Poonbato, the once-sleepy village at the foot of Mt. Pinatubo, in Botolan, Zambales in the Philippines, has today evolved into a global pilgrim center of Our Lady Ina Poonbato, whose genesis as an Aeta legend, dates back to the 17th century.Continue reading “Our Lady ‘Ina Poonbato’ – A Pilgrim Center Rises”

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The Philippines is the only country in Asia which does not support farmers with farm subsidies. Vietnam is a net exporter of rice because of government rice subsidies, while we are a rice importer due to zero subsidies triggering poor production. Thailand is a net exporter of sugar because of sugar subsidies. Our sugar productionContinue reading “Agricultural Crisis Philippines Looms”

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‘True Tales’ series – volume 2 A book of a collection of ‘True Tales’ is forthcoming. Manolito, a homeless 15-year-old orphan, lived alone in Plaza Ferguson in Ermita, Manila. He slept on a flattened cardboard box underneath a bench. One night, like an angel from heaven,  policeman Sergeant Leandro rescue him from his poverty. eastwindContinue reading “The Boy Who Slept on a Cardboard Box (#2)”

This is inspired by a true story of lessons learned by a missionary nun from the ancient wisdom of an Aeta (nomadic tribe) teenage guide. Aetas are a tribe in the remote Sierra Madre rainforests in the Philippines clinging on to their ancient nomadic past against the onslaught of Christian assimilation. ‘True Tales’ Series –Continue reading “The Aeta and the Nun (#20)”

San Isidro Island (name changed for privacy), off Palawan, was owned by Pierre, a French ex-backpacker-turned-resort-owner. He bought the deserted small island with his last savings. Pierre turned the exotic island into a successful haven for French backpackers. Pierre and I sat on the beach facing the reddening horizon. Mugs clinked. My first swig ofContinue reading “You Can’t Buy Happiness – A True Story”

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The US-wide abortion civil war has now escalated into several tiers – 1) Republican vs. Democrats, 2) Biden and the Federal Government vs. the Supreme Court and the State Governments, 3) anti-abortion Bishops vs. pro-abortion legislators, 4) the Vatican vs Local Dioceses, and 5) the majority pro-abortion vs. minority anti-abortion public. America is waking upContinue reading “US Abortion Civil War Escalates After SC Reversal – Bishops Ban Communion for Abortionists”

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Right now, there is an intense heat wave in the entire Southeast Asian region and in California from south to north. A major bridge in Pakistan was destroyed by raging glacial-melt waters due to intense heat. We are at stage 3 of an ongoing global drought which started in 2021 and which refuses to dissipate.Continue reading “Worldwide Drought is Here”

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In the ‘Big Bang’ theory, all matter known in the entire Universe today, was supposedly contained in a ‘ball’ smaller than an atom. The energy, density and gravity within this ‘ball’ was so massive, it defies imagination, perhaps a number containing 100 or more zeroes. Billions of years ago, this molecular ball exploded within eightContinue reading “The ‘Big Bang’ Theory”

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This article is a simplified layman’s view of the Universe. If we were star gazers that can roam the Universe at will and go back to the deep past, this is what we would see, one of the theories of modern Astronomy today. eastwind journals, June 13, 2022 (archives tr257) By Bernie V. Lopez, eastwindreplyctr@gmail.comContinue reading “We are Made from Stardust”

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This magical high-tech modern science is replicated by an indigenous ancient low-tech Batangas tradition. Quite by accident, I was a guest in an ancestral home in the town of Malvar, Batangas. I talked to the host, an 85-year-old woman with long snow-white hair, about weird-looking ‘tubes’ hanging on a clothes-line in the kitchen, similar toContinue reading “Stem Cell Therapy Batangas-Style”

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