Newspapers

Was reading the newspaper a few times in Davao and on the 3 plane trips. There are some common articles that are coming out of the newspapers relating to local Filipino news as well as articles from the provinces. There has been some flooding in the southern provinces which have affected ½ a million people. This has made front page of the paper. It is a clear reminder to me that people here suffer from natural disasters and that due to poor infrastructure and corruption it seems like a constant thing that is happening on a yearly basis. Corruption and issues regarding the military also surface in some of the news articles. I think about some of our newspapers back in Aus. Yes there is news, but I wonder if it really is ‘news’. That’s my opinion, people may disagree, but it would be great if real news was on the front page. I know with the floods that it would make front page, but other generic news also sometimes appears on our front covers of papers.
Even in Filipino newspapers inside the middle of each paper people have superstitious sayings which appear. This one(see pic) just shows that people need to have Jesus in their lives and not rely on Mary. It is sad when around the Philippines you will see many churches, at airports you will see Bible verses however deep down in peoples hearts, they are lost.

It is my prayer that people would understand who God really is and that they won’t rely on the quote in the newspaper which says they need to worship Mary but only Jesus.