Christmas Message of Senator Loren Legarda

December 25, 2012

I PRAY FOR A PEACEFUL, BOUNTIFUL AND JOYFUL CHRISTMAS SEASON FOR EVERYONE.
May we all be grateful for the blessings received and welcome the coming year full of hope and with a strong resolve to make our communities safe from disasters.
I wish everyone a green and safe Christmas and New Year.

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Legarda Urges Filipinos: Find Unity Among Diversity

December 22, 2012

“In a few days we will be celebrating Christmas, an occasion observed by Catholics. But even non-Catholic Filipinos respect the occasion and join us in celebration. This is what we, as a nation, must aim to do—respect one another’s beliefs and culture. We must find unity among diversity,”

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Legarda Hails Brillante Mendoza’s “Thy Womb”

December 21, 2012

“The Senate earlier recognized the independent filmmaker Brillante Mendoza through Senate Resolution 871 for winning both the La Navicella Venezia Cinema Award of the critics’ circle Journal of Cinema, and the P. Nazareno Taddei Award Special Mention Thy Womb at the 69th Venice International Film Festival,”

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Legarda Alarmed Over Reports of Human Traffickers in Mindanao’s Devastated Communities

December 21, 2012

SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA EXPRESSED EXTREME ALARM OVER REPORTS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKERS PROWLING MINDANAO’S DEVASTATED COMMUNITIES IN THE WAKE OF TYPHOON PABLO, AND URGED LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND CITIZENS ALIKE TO REMAIN VIGILANT.
“I have always emphasized that disasters are linked inextricably to poverty and socio-economic inequality. It is important to realize that the changing climate will have its worst effects on the poorest of the poor, and nowhere is this clearer than in these reports of human traffickers prowling Compostela […]

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Legarda Welcomes Quai Branly Museum President

December 20, 2012

SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY WELCOMED MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY PRESIDENT STÉPHANE MARTIN, AND MS. CONSTANCE DE MONBRISON, CURATOR AT THE MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY, WHO ARE IN THE COUNTRY FOR THE 2013 PHILIPPINE EXHIBITION AT THE PARIS, FRANCE MUSEUM.

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