Help for poor, despairing college students

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo It is graduation season. Financially challenged students and parents must be in distress because of unpaid school fees and other expenses that need to be met in order for these students to be on the official roster of graduates and receive their diplomas—and on stage if possible. What they go through is different from school opening woes. This is the last hurdle, so to speak, and to be denied...

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Gang rape of 75-year-old nun

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma.Ceres P. Doyo (PHOTO CAPTION: Local people of Nadia district protest on the streets condemning the gang rape. Source: Express Photo by Partha Paul)   What kind of men are these? From what depths of hell did they come?  In the news is how a group of men who burglarized a convent in West Bengal in India also gagged and gang-raped a 75-year-old Catholic nun who lived in that convent....

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Her journey, her voice

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo          LAUNCHED last week at Ateneo Library of Women’s Writings (Aliww) was “Many Journeys, Many Voices” (Anvil), a beautiful book (the concept, the stories, the design) that focuses on Filipina Overseas Workers (FOWs) from “the perspective of three interdisciplinary studies: sociology, literature and art.” On the back cover is a blurb that was...

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Teen girls joining ISIS jihadis

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Psychologists, sociologists, political analysts and experts on religion and spirituality should be outdoing one another to find reasons why female teenagers barely out of their childhood years are leaving home and country to join Isis (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). This group is considered to be a terrorist threat with intent to rule the world by creating a global caliphate. Isis, through...

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