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Geena Rocero’s Gender Proud is now both a non-profit and a business entity
By Cristina DC Pastor Gender Proud, the non-profit organization founded by transgender model Geena Rocero in 2014 as a vehicle for her gender marker advocacy, is now also a business entity. Rocero and colleague Allison Hoffman announced the creation of Gender Proud Productions LLC (GPP) as a media production company that may develop products like […]
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Let ‘divorced Catholics who remarry’ return to the sacraments
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. “Divorced Catholics who remarry, as well as their children, deserve better treatment from the church.” This was heard from Pope Francis himself as he warned pastors against treating those couples as though they were excommunicated. It all goes back to certain practices: Catholic teaching considers divorced Catholics who remarry as […]
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Finding lessons, hilarity in Gene Del Carmen’s collection of short stories
By Maricar CP Hampton For New Jersey accountant Gene Del Carmen, it was his mother’s legacy of being a “great storyteller” that inspired him to write short stories and compile them into the recently published “The Pork Bun Heist and Other Stories.” The collection of nine stories focuses on the possibility of transformation and a […]
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Michigan writer publishes comic books inspired by Philippine folklore
By Cristina DC Pastor Bayani, a boy of 11, is desperately trying to care for his sick father, a fisherman, and keep food on the table for his family. Unfortunately, the sun has been shining down on the islands for the last month and night refuses to fall. The land is growing parched from the […]
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In this Manhattan nursing home, 90% of nurses are Filipinos, says RN exec Florida Lucas
By Cristina DC Pastor Filipinos comprise about 90 percent of nurses at Amsterdam Nursing Home, and if you ask Florida Lucas, the assistant director of nursing, she wouldn’t be surprised if such ratio exists in other nursing facilities in Manhattan as well. “I would say so,” she replied when asked by The FilAm if such […]
