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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 06 August) – Three books on Mindanao are among 27 winners in the 39th National Book Awards given out...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 17 July) –  After it became certain that he won the Presidential race in the May 9, 2016 polls,...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 June) – The 2nd Mindanao Book Festival opens here on June 13 with a collective launch of Mindanao...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 January) – The COVID-19 pandemic did not stop Mindanawons and non-Mindanawons from writing books about Mindanao: at...

TITLE: Mga Lumadnong Sugilanon nga Mahinuklogon AUTHOR: Melchor M. Morante Published by Aletheia Printing and Publishing House, Davao City Virtual book launch on 30 December 2020 at...

  SPACES: Narratives About the Mission of Fr. Angel Calvo, CMF Author: Maria Frencie Carreon Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc. DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 September) -- There was...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 03 November) – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte may or may not be a Roa, but certainly, he has no Meranaw...

JAKARTA (MindaNews / 25 September) – Twenty-three years after the Final Peace Agreement between the Philippine government and the Moro National Liberation Front was...

I wrote Kakistocracy: Rule of the Unprincipled, Unethical and Unqualified because of my interest in leadership integrity issues. I was then very much involved...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 September) – Ronnie V. Amorado’s book on “principled leadership” was launched Saturday at the University of Mindanao, a sequel...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 September) -- From “Coffee and Dreams on a Late Afternoon: Tales of Despair and Deliverance in Mindanao” in 2005...

(Bert Cacayan’s foreword to the book, "Seeking New Meanings and New Expressions", the Missionaries of the Assumption Story, launched on 15 August 2019 at...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 23 December) – Perhaps some of us may have the luxury of finding time during the Christmas holidays to just take things easy. Life can be so hectic for most of the year – as we try our best to survive health issues, stress in the workplace,  traffic, frustrations with politics, slow internet connections and so many other concerns – that one finds it difficult to find the time to just relax and do what the heart desires.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 05 Nov) – The biggest book sale in the world will be in Davao City soon. The founder of the Big...

In this world of gadgets and tablets, this boy finds a way to indulge his passion for reading at the books section in a...

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 22 Feb) – A book on indigenous knowledge and spirituality of the Lumad or indigenous peoples of Mt. Kitanglad Range...

Title of the book: Scissors, Papers, Water, Stones Author: Maria Frencie Carreon Publication: 2017, by Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc., Quezon City, Philippines Pages: Introductory (xviii); body (115) Printing:...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 30 July) -- Joan Mae Soco-Bantayan thought of writing a book two years ago but buckling down to work was...

At a poetry reading (my first time attending), I sat listening… And, oh boy, was it interesting!   Wordsmiths amateur and senior, one or two an award winner, gave a sampling...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 Feb) – Is reading a book these days - which I have always thought was a rare precious gift...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 February) – Watch out for the “punto de vista” (point of view) and “omissions, silences.” This was the challenge posed by Dr....

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 6 Feb) – Award-winning poet, writer, artist and professor Ricardo de Ungria was among a number of Mindanawon poets who...

Good afternoon. Assalamu Allaykum. May God's peace and compassion be always in our hearts! It is my pleasure to welcome you all this afternoon to...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 02 February) -- At least 37 Mindanao books were published in 2013, majority still on history and peacebuilding in the...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/17 Oct) – The public library in this city will soon become an upgraded version of an incubation space, where one learns...

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/14 September) – Eighteen school libraries and learning resource centers in Region 9 have availed the Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based...

DAKBAYAN SA DABAW (MindaNews/3 Aug) – Unsa man ang resulta kon mag-uban sa usa ka proyekto ang duha ka tawo kinsa ang matag usa kanila naghupot og daghang talento?

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/5 March) –  This year’s harvest of Mindanao books begins with  three coloring books on peace, joy and love; an “authorized biography”...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 January)  -- At least 28 books, including four journals and a collection of photos of Mindanao’s first decade under the new...

(Review of “The Politics of Anti-Politics: What does the buzzword ‘community-driven development’ do? The case of Mindanao Peace and Development” by Nikki Philline C....

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/15 May) -- Two books by Mindanawons will be launched this week: Ronnie Amorado’s “Kakistocracy: The Rule of the Unprincipled, Unethical and Unqualified” and Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar’s “Manobo Dreams in Arakan: A People's Struggle to Keep Their Homeland.” Amorado’s book will be launched Tuesday morning at room J-301, Jubilee Hall of the Ateneo de Davao University’s Jacinto Campus.

Two hundred fifty nine?Yes, at least 259 books on Mindanao or written by Mindanawons have been published since 2000, most of them on history and peace-building. This year’s harvest is 35 (29 books, six journals and reports), including one dictionary, Chavacano-English, English-Chavacano, published by the Ateneo de Zamboanga University Press.

Karl Gaspar's latest book, "The Masses are Messiah: Contemplating the Filipino Soul" is a rare book - a significant contribution to the scholarship on babaylans, Filipino struggles for social transformation, and spirituality, long overdue but so difficult to make. Of course, it's no surprise that the author could pull off this scholarly but captivating work. Karl Gaspar's academic background as an anthropologist and sociologist, his grassroots experience of resistance during martial law and beyond, and the wide social network he has built over the years were all a preparation for this timely research. It helps that Karl was CEO of several Mindanao-based institutions, including the controversial Mindanao Sulu Pastoral Conference (MSPC) in the late 1970s, roamed the region as poet, minstrel, and playwright in the early 1980s, and has now put all his tremendous talents to the service of the Redemptorist missions, some of which consist of the poorest communities in Mindanao and elsewhere.

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/09 December) - Redemptorist Brother Karl Gaspar's latest book, "The Masses are Messiah: Contemplating the Filipino Soul" will be launched Friday, International...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/14 November) - "Bakwit:  The Power of the Displaced," written by MindaNews' Jose Jowel Canuday won the National Book Award in the...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 October) - "Bakwit: The Power of the Displaced," written by MindaNews' Jose Jowel Canuday is a finalist in the Social...

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/22 Sept) -- A book on peace building efforts in the communities was launched here on Tuesday, in time for...

COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/07 August) – The books’ topics are inter-related -- the consequences of the recurring armed conflicts in Mindanao on civilians and...

“We in the military have been avoiding this topic for the longest time because we don’t know how to handle it,” Major Gen. Carlos Holganza, chief of the Army’s 10th Infantry Division, said at the launching Saturday of Dr. Gail Tan Ilagan’s book, “War Wounded: Combat Stress Sequelae of 10ID Soldiers.”