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Cebuano great retired Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. was appointed new ambassador to the United Nations in New York. His appointment, however, from the President still needs confirmation from the Commission on Appointments to make it legally official which sees no hindrance.

The Commission on Appointments is made up of 13 senators with the Senate President, currently Franklin Drilon, automatically becoming the CA chairman and 12 members of the House.

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Holy Week is Christendom’s holiest week of the year. Good Friday and Easter Sunday are the holiest days.

In Cebu, like the rest of the Philippines and other Christian countries, Semana Santa is devoted to days of solemn services in churches and homes alike. Believers are encouraged to follow in their prayers with readings from the Gospel the account of each of the actions from the time of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to the crucifixion and death of Jesus on Good Friday and the resurrection on Easter Sunday. This tradition has been passed on from generation to generation for hundreds of years since the Spanish colonization of the Philippines.

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The Parish Museum of Bantayan Island is holding an exhibit on the Passus of Bantayan.
The exhibit, which will run until April 22, is in celebration of the first anniversary of the parish museum.

Pls click here for more.

Treat your kids to Ayala Center Cebu’s Easter Eggs-plorations on Easter Sunday, April 16, 2006.

Easter Sunday would surely be full of fun-filled activities, with free rides, goodies and other cool treats that would surely give your kids a full day of fun and excitement.

Easter Eggs-plorations will give kids more than the typical egg-hunting as the Mad Science group sparks their imaginations with the fundamentals of moving science egg-xperiment on egg tossing, space age rocket packs and uncovering the science behind some of the favorite Olympic sports. The Mad Scientists as their guide will bring them into the world of discovery.

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