Church launches
‘Year of Laity’
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

Dumaguete Bishop Julito Cortes called on the lay faithful to reflect on their lives based on Christ’s example, as the Catholic Church launched the Year of the Laity Sunday in preparation for the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines in 2021.

Cortes reiterated his message in yesterday’s dawn mass, the first of the nine-day Misa de Gallo leading to Christmas Day.

Citing a Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, Cortes stressed the involvement of the laity, the biggest component of the Church, in the nine years of preparation for 2021, called “The Era of Evangelization”.

Fire destroys house,
damage at P250,000
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

A fire of still unknown origin razed a house yesterday afternoon in Purok 5, Barangay Bantayan in Dumaguete City, and damaged about P250,000 in property and personal belongings.

Dumaguete City fire marshal Arnulfo Sayson said they received the call at 2:20 p.m. and fire trucks and firefighters were immediately deployed to the area but when they arrived, the house, that was made of light materials, was already engulfed by flames.

No one was injured since the couple who owned it was at work and their two children were in school.

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