LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 7 - The provincial government of Albay has released the initial assistance to the remaining evacuees from Barangay Anoling, Camalig town amounting to P3 million for the construction of their core shelters.

MANILA, Jan. 9 -Senator Richard J. Gordon is optimistic that millions of employees of delinquent employees could now re-avail of their benefits from the Social Security System (SSS) with the enactment of the SSS condonation law.

PILI, CamSur (6 January 2010) -- The Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported that some 11,700 underweight children in some 204 remote and coastal barangays of the province of Camarines Sur have benefited under the LRay Vita Kidz Nutrition Program last year.

MANILA, January 7, 2010-The East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI) of the Ateneo de Manila University in collaboration with the Catholic Biblical Federation (CBF)-Southeast Asia has officially opened the 1st Biblical Pastoral Ministry course.

MANILA, Jan. 7, 2010- Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales called on politicians to spare the Black Nazarene feast on Saturday from early election campaigning.

MANILA, January 8, 2010-In connection with the theme of the 403rd procession of the Black Nazarene, a voter's education program will be given on the eve of the feast of the Black Nazarene at the Quirino Grandstand in Luneta, Manila today.

MANILA, Jan. 6, 2010─Focusing on the interior renewal of the clergy in this year dedicated for priests, an intense five-day national priests' congress will be held this month that will gather diocesan and religious clergy around the country.

Instead of lavishly spending the holidays, the Alfelor clan chose to end and start their new year with a spiritual activity. Dubbed as FOAS or the FOAS or Felix Ordas Alfelor Senior (FOAS), the family retreat was held at the Caritas Christi, Concepcion Grande, Naga City on December 29, 2009.

PILI, Camarines Sur, Jan. 5- The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Regional Consular Office in Bikol will resume its Mobile Passport Service (MPS) to cater to the passport needs of residents in Camarines Sur who wishes to go abroad for employment or tour purposes.

LEGAZPI CITY, Jan. 5 - As Mt. Mayon's seismic activity is gearing up towards normalcy, disaster authorities here are continuing to enforce the "No man's land" rule in designated danger zones surrounding the volcano.