Fr. Nery memorial race draws 500 runners

MALAYBALAY CITY –  (Bukidnon News Dispatch/01-02 October) The first ever Fr. Nery Satur memorial run, organized in time for the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of his death, drew more than 500 participants on October 1. The five-kilometer run started around 6:45a.m. at the Freedom Park Covered Court. The Diocese of Malaybalay and the Archdiocese [...]

LIFE IN THE PLATEAU: Starting the change in a meal

By Walter I. Balane On the road to a resort in Lianga, Surigao del Sur one early evening last year, our Grassroots Documentation and Reporting Training Team talked about the application of science in the food that we eat. It was a humorous but “meaty” chatter. The usual one you get into inside the vehicle [...]

SIC, Prov’l Capitol team up for reforestation program

MALAYBALAY CITY – Catholic Church-owned San Isidro College is signing a memorandum of agreement for a four-year reforestation program with the provincial government.

Abp. Ledesma pushes for culture of peace in media

MALAYBALAY CITY – Cagayan de Oro Archbishop Antonio Ledesma has pushed for media to have culture of peace seeking more media participation as stakeholder in the peace process in Mindanao. Ledesma, chair of the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission for Inter-religious Dialogue, has convened the media from the dioceses of Cagayan de [...]

[PHOTOS] Traditional “Sugat” or early morning Easter Mass at the Capitol Grounds in Malaybalay City

Bukidnon forum tackles impact of development to watershed, river basin

MALAYBALAY CITY – A Bukidnon forum organized as a follow up to the Bukidnon Environment Summit of 2008 is meant to assess the impact of development activities like the expansion on the sectors of agriculture, industries, and the recent entry of mining operations in the province. Scheduled on April 27 to 28 at the Bukidnon [...]

[PHOTO] Ready for the Easter “Sugat”

Coconut disease blamed for fewer Palm Sunday ‘palaspas’ in Bukidnon

MALAYBALAY CITY (21 Apr) – When Catholics here went to attend Mass last Palm Sunday, they found fewer coconut leaves woven like the palm braids waived in Jerusalem when Jesus entered the city before His passion at the cross. It’s not because it’s a forgotten tradition. Local palaspas makers blame it to a leaf disease [...]

[PHOTOS] Malaybalay, haven for prayer and reflection

Bukidnon News joins the Christian Community in the observation of the Holy Week

A meaningful, blessed, and life-giving Holy Week to all. Bukidnon News. Photo courtesy of Vatican.va

Former mayor pushes for revival of Malaybalay historical committee

MALAYBALAY CITY (19 April) – Former Malaybalay City mayor Edilberto Mamawag Sr. said Malaybalay City needs to revive and fund a historical committee created in the late 1970s to look into historical events that still have a lingering effect on the present. Mamawag, an appointed mayor of the then Municipality of Malaybalay from 1979 to [...]

Remembering Bukidnon’s Fr. Alingal: Bishop Claver's "The Empty Tomb of Kibawe"

By Bishop Francisco Claver, SJ There is an empty tomb in Kibawe, Bukidnon. The townspeople built it for their murdered pastor, Father Godofredo Alingal, S.J. And they would have buried him there on Monday, April 20, a full week after he was cold-bloodedly shot dead by hired killers. But over the people’s protest and against [...]

30 years after Fr. Alingal’s death: Bukidnon remembers a man in search of justice through peaceful means

MALAYBALAY CITY – In a reunion among at least 1,400 church lay miniters or alagad, Miarayon, Talakag, Bukidnon parish priest Fr. Mat Sanchez reminded church workers of the life and death of his fellow Jesuit slain priest Godofredo Alingal in time for the 3oth anniversary of his death. He told Bukidnon News the slain priest [...]