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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 55,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 20 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report. Read Full Story

My mother would tell me to wipe my handkerchief on the statue of their Jesus, so that I will get well and he will guide me. But I was really scared of that graven image. I was scared thinking that if I’m going to mold a clay and draw a picture or image that looks [...] Read Full Story

News Type: Event — Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:44 AM EDT Jane Abao Manila, Philippines – A media man resorting to short cut methods of hitting an enemy drops the name of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to make it appear that his enemy is on the run and to alert the Interpol. Alfred P. Dalizon, writing in World News Network on Journal online dated August 19, 2008, said that International Evangelist, Bro. Eliseo Soriano, is wanted for rape and that an international... Read Full Story

News Type: Event — Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:12 AM EST Jane Abao An international evangelist, considered as the most queried man on earth today reiterated his need to face his powerful nemesis in a one-on-one debate on television live. Also counted as the most sensible preacher of our time today, his challenge is not one to be easily dismissed. Some quarters look at this challenge as a spur to the debate of the century long expected by those familiar with this preacher. Filipino evangelist... Read Full Story

News Type: Event — Sun Nov 4, 2007 11:26 PM EST Jane Abao Manila, Philippines – A church group suspected to be behind the troubles of a justice who failed to get appointed as Supreme Court justice surfaced lately. According to Victor C. Agustin, columnist of Manila Standard Today, the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) finally surfaced as the group that was behind Gregory S. Ong’s failure to get appointed as Supreme Court (SC) justice. In his column titled, Cocktales, Agustin... Read Full Story

By Jane Abao Manila, Philippines (Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:23 AM EST)- Congressman-elect Daniel S. Razon called on Philippine National Police Chief Avelino Razon before some 50,000 followers Saturday to protect his accuser. In a phone patch conversation with the Police General during which Daniel Razon was reporting to his church constituents last Saturday (11/24/07) at their Convention Center north of Manila, the Congressman-elect requested Gen. Avelino Razon to please give all the security... Read Full Story

By Jane Abao Manila, Philippines (8/23/2011) – To boycott is to punish. After two years GMANews has not learned its lesson. Its habit for biased and irresponsible reporting cannot anymore pass. It has been slapped with a massive boycott throughout the country from Ang Dating Daan (ADD) until the network renders a public apology to its victim, Bro. Eli Soriano. This is as far as the organization of Bro. Eli is concerned. Bro. Eli is the Presiding Minister to the Members Church of God... Read Full Story

My father was silent when he came home.  Then, he summoned us to the living room. He explained that we needed God’s grace and mercy to live in this world.  I cannot remember everything that he said. But I was crying quietly the whole time he was talking to us By Katherine Gay A. Ortega When I was in high school, I was searching for something – I just didn’t know what that was.  This may sound like a cliché but this is true to me. Before I became a member of the Members Church of God... Read Full Story

Though what he said were painful to us, my family and I had the growing interest to listen more to what Bro. Eli was talking about. Perhaps because we wanted to listen more of his attacks that we could study and desperately hope to rebut fully. By Clavelyn Domingo I grew up in a family [...] Read Full Story

Jimmy Swaggart, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Reinhard Bonke, Creflo Dollar and many local preachers like Joseph Walters, Dian Warep, the late Joseph Kingal and many more. But Bro. Eli is different By Seamus Eddie Takei I am Seamus Eddie Takei, 45 years old, married with three children. I come from Siar Village in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. I grew up in the Lutheran faith since childhood through my parents until I became an active member of a Pentecostal movement in 1998. The... Read Full Story