Handwritten account of massacre of missionaries

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo At about this time last year, I wrote about Pope Francis’ statement on “complicit silence” and how human beings, particularly Christians, were butchered by a terrorist group whose members were adherents of Islam. He was referring to the killing by al-Shabab Islamists of more than 148 persons at Garissa University in Kenya. A similar killing spree happened again several days ago in Lahore, Pakistan....

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"A country not even his own'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Steve E. Psinakis, a Greek-American mechanical engineer who made the Philippines his own and fought during the dark days of Marcos martial rule to help restore the Filipinos’ freedom, died last March 15 at the age of 84. He died here, in a country not his own but which he loved to the point of going through purgatory himself. Psinakis survived to tell his story in a book “A Country Not Even...

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Watch your bank accounts

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo “I just read it in the Inquirer.” “When it was already in the papers.” “So nauna sa dyaryo (it came out first in the newspaper).” I heard these at the Senate hearing two days ago where persons of interest gave their accounts on how they learned cyberhackers had siphoned $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and sent it to the Philippines for...

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Jovito R. Salonga, 95: What, where does this quintessential statesman and patriot leave us?

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo Where, and what does this quintessential statesman leave us? Would that the youth of this land become eager enough to look upon his life and draw inspiration from his legacy! Patriot par excellence, former Senate President Jovito Salonga, passed on March 10 at the age of 95. Salonga outlived many who had walked the same path he had taken. Ailing and infirm for several years, he waited...

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'God of Outsiders'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo One day or one week is not enough, so International Women’s Day two days ago extends itself to the whole of March, and rightly so. So many issues to tackle, so many unfinished work to complete, so many wrongs to right. As is wont to be said, it takes more than a village, more than a generation, and more than half of the world’s population for change to take effect. Many women around the...

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