While I’m currently in Baguio for an official business, I haven’t had a chance yet to shoot around the city. Maybe because of the weather here, a perfect place to sleep! Pretty cold up here, how I wish I could sleep all day.

So,  since I can’t get up very early, all I got for photo ops are these strawberries!

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Yesterday, a news report says there is a drop of extrajudicial killings in the country, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).

Read full report here

But then as I opened the news websites this morning, I was stunned by the report on the killing of an Oblate priest in Tawi-tawi. I can’t remember if  I already met him. But guess, we’ve met somewhere else — could be in a peace forum or something.

Oblate priest killed in Tawi-tawi

DAVAO CI TY (MindaNews/15 January) – A Catholic priest of the Oblates of the Mary Immaculate (OMI) congregation was killed at around 8:30 tonight in Tabawan Island, Tawi-tawi province, “in an apparent kidnapping attempt,” Father Ramon Bernabe, OMI Provincial  said. Fr. Jesus Reynaldo A. Roda, director of the Notre Dame of Tabawan and head of the mission station there for the last ten years  “was praying in the chapel, as he used to do every night, when armed men barged in and tried to take him. He struggled and resisted being taken away, and explicitly said that he preferred to be killed right there and then. A witness said that he was beaten and then shot dead. The armed men also took some valuables from his office before fleeing, taking with them also a male teacher of Notre Dame of Tabawan who happened to be there,” Bernabe said in an e-mailed letter to fellow Oblates and friends.(Mindanews)