By Fr. Oliver McCrossan, SSC   A training on Regenerative Agriculture/soil regeneration was conducted and held at Living Soils Farm, Sitio Kakawan, Patrocenio, Claveria, Misamis Oriental on February 22-23, 2025. The training was attended by no less than 10 key leaders of organizations from different places in Mindanao. These key leaders from peoples, farmers, and

  FR. BRIAN GORE died on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, at the Holy Mother of Mercy Hospital in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, Philippines, due to septic shock. Born in Perth, Australia, in 1944, Father Brian was ordained in 1968 and arrived in the Philippines in 1969. He was assigned to southern Negros Occidental, then under

By Fr. Shay Cullen, Founder of PREDA (est. 1974) When Pope Francis arrived in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world, he delivered  a message of peace, dialogue and religious tolerance, along with a warning against extremism. In recent years, religious rivalry gave rise to extremism that distorted religious beliefs through “deception and