Some 200 talented local dancers selected from state universities and colleges of the province will be awarded college scholarships by the provincial government of Camarines Sur as part of Gov. LRay's scholarship program for CamSur constituents.

NAGA CITY, July 14, 2009-The Archdiocese of Caceres is truly blessed with priestly vocations with the recent addition of 20 new members of the clergy.

MANILA, July 14, 2009-A group of former seminarians would help raise funds for the campaign of Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio should he run for the presidency in 2010. The Philippine Alliance of eX-Seminarians (PAX) said they would support the priest-turned politician because he stands for a different kind of politics.

MANILA, July 17, 2009-A group of Muslims is calling for a halt to speculations about the spate of bombings in Mindanao that could affect the Christian-Muslim relations.

During the second year of our preparation for the Tercentenary of our devotion to Our Lady of Peñafrancia, the Archbishop invited the Archdiocese of Caceres and the devotees to a communal discernment within the context of the theme: Renewing Our Faith Through Ina.

PEP COALITION BACKED BY SEN. ROXAS AGAINST PRE-NEED COMPANIES? The "Unang Hirit" Channel 7 Wednesday appearance of Philip Piccio, the leader of a group calling itself "PEP Coalition," was preceded by a frenzy of text messages sent to officials and plan holders of Phil Asia Care Plans, Inc. a day before, warning that Piccio will touch, although indirectly, about the Phil Asia problem.

MANILA, July 15, 2009-A Mindanao-based prelate said the government should not just rush amnesty in favor of the Abu Sayyaf members responsible for the kidnapping and release of ICRC volunteers "because of the track record of kidnapping" over the past few years.

NAGA CITY -- TWO SUSPECTED members of a robbery-holdup gang have been charged of robbery with homicide before the RTC Branch 30 in San Jose, Camarines Sur, after the two were apprehended in a police pursuit operation during a shootout in a foiled armed robbery at a grain buying station in Barangay Digdigon, Goa, Cam. Sur.

VIRAC, Catanduanes, July 15- Gilbert Ebo, a former New People's Army (NPA) commander, became a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) of the Philippine Army (PA), but he confessed killing last February a man and a woman after robbing them of their cash and valuables in the nearby San Miguel town.

PILI, Camarines Sur, July 15 (PNA) -- The Department of Agriculture (DA) has declared malunggay (moringa oleifera) as among the banner crops of Bikol as its Regional Field Unit (RFU) maps out strategies to expand its production through new technologies and proper motivation.