What are the odds you get a kiss from Pope Francis when you’re standing in the middle of thousands of people?
The family of 8-month baby girl Sabrielle La Salette Rosete would agree if you answered it’s highly improbable.
Stephen Janssen and Jona May, the baby’s parents, told the CBCP News even they were not expecting the sudden encounter would ever happen.
“We feel very blessed, very, very lucky,” Jona related to the religious website after this rare chance of a lifetime. Stephen answered, “I just raised her very, very high.”
“It was my prayer, as grandma. Sinabi ko na we have to go and baka makita (ni Pope Francis si Sabrielle). Sobrang answered prayer,” Lina Rosete, the baby’s grandmother said, as quoted in a report by CBCP News.
The Rosetes were just one of the thousands of families who trooped outside the Mall of Asia Arena to catch a glimpse of the Pope. The usual concert and sports venue was transformed into a religious place on Friday, January 16, where 17,000 pre-selected audience waited for the visiting pope.
The little less than 2-hour event saw Francis hearing three Filipino families’ stories on what they have to say about forming a family in this largely Catholic country.
Addressing families in attendance, the Argentinian pope emphasized “the gift of the family."
"It is important to dream in the family. All mothers and fathers dream of their sons and daughters in the womb for 9 months. They dream of how they will be. It isn’t possible to have a family without such dreams. When you lose this capacity to dream you lose the capacity to love, the capacity to love is lost,” he said.
The Pope is known to pull out kids from the crowd wherever he goes. He either blesses or kisses children during his trips.
His fondness of kids prompted Filipinos to call him “Lolo Kiko”—lolo being the Tagalog word for grandfather and Kiko, the usual nickname of Filipinos named Francis.
Filipino healing priest Joey Faller said the pope loves his local name in the Philippines, he related to ABS-CBN News last December. The priest was at a general audience in the Vatican last November when he shouted “Lolo Kiko! Lolo Kiko!” while Pope Francis was riding a popemobile. A smiling pope looked back, indicating he liked his new nickname.
The family of 8-month baby girl Sabrielle La Salette Rosete would agree if you answered it’s highly improbable.
Stephen Janssen and Jona May, the baby’s parents, told the CBCP News even they were not expecting the sudden encounter would ever happen.
“We feel very blessed, very, very lucky,” Jona related to the religious website after this rare chance of a lifetime. Stephen answered, “I just raised her very, very high.”
“It was my prayer, as grandma. Sinabi ko na we have to go and baka makita (ni Pope Francis si Sabrielle). Sobrang answered prayer,” Lina Rosete, the baby’s grandmother said, as quoted in a report by CBCP News.
The Rosetes were just one of the thousands of families who trooped outside the Mall of Asia Arena to catch a glimpse of the Pope. The usual concert and sports venue was transformed into a religious place on Friday, January 16, where 17,000 pre-selected audience waited for the visiting pope.
The little less than 2-hour event saw Francis hearing three Filipino families’ stories on what they have to say about forming a family in this largely Catholic country.
Addressing families in attendance, the Argentinian pope emphasized “the gift of the family."
"It is important to dream in the family. All mothers and fathers dream of their sons and daughters in the womb for 9 months. They dream of how they will be. It isn’t possible to have a family without such dreams. When you lose this capacity to dream you lose the capacity to love, the capacity to love is lost,” he said.
The Pope is known to pull out kids from the crowd wherever he goes. He either blesses or kisses children during his trips.
His fondness of kids prompted Filipinos to call him “Lolo Kiko”—lolo being the Tagalog word for grandfather and Kiko, the usual nickname of Filipinos named Francis.
Filipino healing priest Joey Faller said the pope loves his local name in the Philippines, he related to ABS-CBN News last December. The priest was at a general audience in the Vatican last November when he shouted “Lolo Kiko! Lolo Kiko!” while Pope Francis was riding a popemobile. A smiling pope looked back, indicating he liked his new nickname.
On Friday, the pope of many surprises deviated from itinerary and sneaked from the Manila Cathedral upon concluding his first mass in the country to meet some street children.
An Australian ranger has captured the moment a python swallowed a wallaby at a national park in a giant feast that could keep it full for three months.
Ranger Paul O'Neill was patrolling Nitmiluk National Park in the Northern Territory when he heard numerous birds making alarm calls and came across the feeding frenzy.
"I saw at first a snake, an olive python, but then on closer inspection I realised it had just... killed a young joey and was just about to start to devour it," O'Neill told AFP of his discovery Monday.
He said the medium-build python, a constrictor, was between 2.5 to three metres (8.2 to 9.8 feet) long.
"That would be the largest-size prey that a snake of that size could take," O'Neill, who documented the digesting process in a series of photographs, said.
"And whilst I watched it devouring it, which took about 40 minutes, it really did struggle until it got over the hump of the belly and then it slid down, so that feed is going to last that snake for a good two to three months.
"That lump will take roughly 24 hours, maybe a bit more, to disappear so it breaks that food down quite quickly, but then it will just be virtually hibernating for a month," he said.
The python would have most likely caught its prey by lunging at and then coiling around the wallaby while it was eating fruits that had fallen from a plum tree, before squeezing it to death, he added.
The olive python is one of Australia's largest snakes and can grow to 4.5 metres and weigh up to 20 kilograms (44 pounds). It is a non-venomous, mostly nocturnal reptile found in arid to sub-humid areas of northern Australia.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday indicted 14 members of the
Tau Gamma Phi fraternity for the death of De La Salle-College of Saint
Benilde student Guillo Cesar Servando after initiation rites last June.
A non-bailable case for violation of Republic Act 8049 or the
Anti-Hazing Law was filed before the Makati City regional trial court
against the respondents led by Cody Errol Morales, head of the
fraternity’s De La Salle University chapter.Also charged were Daniel Paul Martin Bautista, Kurt Michael Almazan, Esmerson Nathaniel Calupas, Hans Killia Tatlonghari, Eleazar Pablico III, John Kevin Navoa, Vic Angelo Dy, Mark Andrew Ramos, Michael David Castañeda, Justin Francis Reyes and three other unidentified persons.
The DOJ filed the case after prosecutors established probable cause on the charges in preliminary investigation.
The DOJ concluded that all 14 accused were present during the initiation rites of Servando and three other neophytes – John Paul Raval, Lorenze Anthony Agustin and Levin Roland Flores – held last June 28 in a house on Calatagan St., Barangay Palanan in Makati City.
It stressed that the fraternity conducted the initiation rites without notice to and authority from school authorities concerned – in violation of the provisions of RA 8049.
“The positive identification of the fraternity members of Tau Gamma Phi by the three neophytes Raval, Agustin and Flores, who survived the hazing, as well as their vivid recollection of what really transpired on June 28, 2014, which at least were not rebutted by the respondents, who either resorted to flight or disappeared to parts unknown, more than swayed our minds to morally conclude that they were telling the truth, and that their testimonies were in fact credible, true and straightforward,” the DOJ said in a 26-page resolution.
The sworn statements of the maintenance and security personnel of One Archers Place Condominium, where the neophytes were staying, also corroborated the testimonies of the three neophytes.
The DOJ noted that the condominium personnel had first-hand interaction with the neophytes and respondents Tatlonghari and Pablico when they returned to the condo unit where Servando died.
“The other pieces of evidence, that is, the closed circuit TV (CCTV) footage recorded at One Archers Place that fateful day... as well as the photographs submitted by complainants, have more than morally convinced the undersigned panel of prosecutors to accord credence to the veritable testimonies of the victims and the other witnesses,” it further explained.
The DOJ, however, recommended the dismissal of the complaint against six other respondents identified as Jemar Pajarito, Luis Solomon Arevalo, Carl Francis Loresca, Steven Jorge Penano, Ma. Teresa Dayanghirang and Alyssa Federique Valbuena for insufficiency of evidence.
The resolution was signed by a panel of prosecutors composed of Assistant State Prosecutors Stewart Allan Mariano, Arnold Magpantay and Alejandro Daguiso, and approved by Prosecutor General Claro Arellano.
The family of Servando welcomed the DOJ findings.
“We are thankful to Secretary (Leila) de Lima and Prosecutor General (Arellano) for coming out with the resolution. Hopefully, we will see arrests soon,” the victim’s father Aurelio said in a text message.
It was, however, found in earlier hearings that respondents Navoa, Calupas, Tatlonghari, Pablico and Valbuena have fled the country.
PAF hazing probe
Twenty-two Philippine Air Force candidate officers and their training
instructor have been grounded and placed under investigation for
reportedly subjecting to hazing their underclassmen at the PAF’s
training school in Lipa City, Batangas.Lt. Col. Enrico Canaya, PAF spokesman, said nine of the candidate officers have been recommended for separation from the service while an ongoing probe is being conducted over the participation of the rest of their colleagues for the physical maltreatment of their underclassmen.
“Nine members… belonging to OC Class 2014 were recommended for separation while 13 others from the same class were recommended for further investigation including a military instructor with a rank of 2Lt.
All 22 are held in a custodial facility at Villamor Air Base to ensure their availability during processing of the case,” Canaya said.
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President Aquino is expected to certify as urgent the proposed joint
resolution granting him emergency powers to ensure stable power supply
in Luzon this summer.
The proposed Joint Resolution 21 seeks to grant Aquino the authority to
tap into the huge generators of commercial establishments under the
Interruptible Load Program (ILP) to ensure stable power supply this
summer when demand is high and power plants tend to break down.The measure was filed by Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales Jr., Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora, Deputy Speaker Henedina Abad, Eastern Samar Rep. Ben Evardone, 1-Care party-list Rep. Edgardo Masongsong, and Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali on Thursday.
Umali, chairman of the energy committee, said the panel aims to vote on the measure on Tuesday or at least by Wednesday, and present the final version to the plenary of the House of Representatives the following week.
He noted that the certification from Aquino is necessary to allow the House to approve the resolution on second and third reading in one plenary session.
Normally, there is at least a three-session day gap between a bill’s approval on second and third reading.
“I don’t think there will be much of a debate both in the committee and in plenary, especially since we’ve removed the very costly proposal from Malacañang to lease or buy gensets (generator sets) which saved us as much as P12 billion that would have been passed on to consumers,” said Umali, who also co-chairs the Joint Congressional Power Commission (JCPC).
“The certification will allow us to meet our deadline of enacting the resolution before December,” he added.
Umali said Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla found the draft resolution “OK” when he asked Petilla during the founding anniversary of Oriental Mindoro yesterday, where the secretary was guest of honor.
Petilla had been insisting on leasing or buying power barges that the House leadership shot down for being too expensive and prone to corruption.
He said Sen. Sergio Osmeña III, chairman of the Senate energy committee and of the JCPC, is also finalizing his own version of the resolution that is expected to have very little conflicting provisions with the House draft.
He said Osmeña was initially very reluctant to approve the measure, especially after officials from the Department of Energy (DOE) admitted before lawmakers that were will be no actual power shortage in Luzon during the hot months but only thin or zero reserves.
‘Carrot and stick’ in ILP
Under the ILP, large private firms and establishments, such as malls,
are asked to disconnect from the grid and run their own generators
during peak demand periods to free up power for use of household and
others users, preventing a rotating blackout.
After five years of making people laugh in ABS-CBN’s
”It’s Showtime,” is host-comedian Vice Ganda bidding the noontime show
farewell?
An unusually subdued Vice Ganda admitted in an interview with ABS-CBN’s
Gretchen Fullido on Friday, October 24 that he’s taking a rest from the
show because of health issues – a throat problem, to be exact.Voice rest
“Kapag hindi napaayos ang sitwasyon, nakakatakot … After ng procedure, two weeks total rest ng voice.”
After two weeks, Vice Ganda added that he will have to take a long rest to fully recover.
The comedian-host admits feeling down and out because he doesn’t want to stop working and he loves his job. Vice Ganda, known for his energetic ways on stage, explained that he has to restrain himself since he can no longer do what he used to do –“sigaw ng sigaw.”
“Masusunog ang lalamunan ko.”
‘Hindi ako baklang showbiz’
Meantime, Vice Ganda denied talks that his decision to take a break from “It’s Showtime” stems from a misunderstanding with ABS-CBN management.
He turned emotional as he thanked everyone who supported him in the noontime show and pledged his unending love to the “madlang pipol’ who always watch him.
A tearful Vice Ganda sat beside his equally emotional “It’s Showtime” co-hosts last Saturday, October 25, and promised fans that he will never fake his actions.
“Isa akong baklang artista, hindi ako baklang showbiz.”
Heart-tugging song
He also said that he doesn’t know the exact date he will take a leave from “Showtime.”
Speculations that Vice Ganda is quitting "Showtime” first surfaced when he told viewers last Thursday, October 23, that his heart-tugging song number with the children on stage could be his last.
“Isang awit na maaaring mag-iwan ng isang mensahe. Mawala man ako sa mundong ito, hindi n'yo man ulit ako mapanuod sa “Showtime,” maging huli man ang performance na ito, mawala man ang imahe na nagawa ko, meron akong maiiwan na malalim na mensahe,."
Vice Ganda was confined for a few days at St. Luke’s Hospital, Quezon City middle of October.
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