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MANILA, Jan. 19, 2012—Want a memento of your alma mater or just a remembrance of Asia’s oldest and only Pontifical university? Then visit the University of Santo Tomas (UST) on Friday for the unveiling of the “400 Shots to Immortality” and get the chance to bring home a limited edition photo portrait and donate something for the victims of Typhoon “Sendong” in Mindanao in the process. The exhibit of never-been-seen pictures of the 400-year-old UST, taken by student-photographer Paul Quiambao, is part of the university’s activities for its Neo-Centennial celebration. The Neo-Centennial celebration succeeds the UST’s year-long Quadricentennial festivities held last year to welcome the next centenary for the institution that produced countless national heroes and leaders. According to organizers, visitors of the exhibit can buy limited copies of some of the featured photographs. Part of the proceeds will be donated to the victims of typhoon “Sendong” as well as to UST-supported Ayta c...

MANILA, Jan. 14, 2012— It is unacceptable to evangelize without helping those who are suffering and in need, a ranking official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said. To not be concerned with life’s temporal problems is going against the Gospel teaching of helping the needy, Archbishop Socrates Villegas said in his homily during the launching of the ‘Year of Mission’ on Saturday. “Every missionary must reach out, proclaim, teach, baptize, pray and love. But a missionary must be helpful all the time regardless of convictions, regardless of faith, regardless of culture,” Villegas said. “Helping hands, meaning to say we embrace all the tears, the joys, the successes, the defeats, the discouragements, the frustrations of humanity. Nothing that is human can be alien to the church. Because the Lord came from heaven in order to embrace fully our humanity,” he said. Hundreds of faithful, mostly young people, graced the launching of the “Year of Pontifical Miss...