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Negros Nine Conducts Abaca Production Technology Training Workshop

Abaca production technology training workshop conducted at Negros Nine Demonstration Farm on October 13 to 15, 2011. These were participated by 26 KOPA members.

‘I’m here because of him’

By Fr Michael Mohally

The author, from Cork city, Ireland, has spent many years working with Columban seminarians in both Ireland and the Philippines. He continues to do that in Quezon City.

The King’s Speech won four Oscars this year. It tells the true story of how Lionel Logue, an Australian, helped the future King George VI of England overcome a bad stammer. Fr Mohally here tells a story about an Irish priest who helped many, none of them kings and many of them very poor, overcome speech difficulties. In the incident reported here, nobody could have foreseen the consequences, not only in Ireland but in Fiji and the Philippines.

I was confined to bed in the infirmary of our headquarters in Manila and, to keep myself occupied, decided to view a BBC television documentary, first shown on 17 January 1961, about a beloved priest of my native Diocese of Cork, Ireland, Father James Christopher (Christy) O’Flynn. Fr O’Flynn was 80 years old when the documentary was made.

He was famous for helping people overcome speech impediments such as stuttering and introducing young people to Shakespeare through a youth club he had in a loft over a warehouse in his parish.

Father Brian Gore -- Misyon Online Pulong ng Editor

KABANKALAN CITY HOLDS CONFERENCE TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Atty. Arnel Sigue discussed Republic Act No. 9208 otherwise known as Anti Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003.

Member participants of CIACAT were the City Social Development Office, Philippine National Police, Department of Interior and Local Government, City Prosecutors Office, Department of Health, Department of Education, PESO, Diocesan Social Action Center and the Negros Nine Human Development Foundation.