'People Power is alive'
Baclaran, Edsa, Mendiola
ring with 'Gloria resign' call
BY ASHZEL HACHERO
FORMER President Corazon Aquino and
key Senate witness Rodolfo Noel "Jun" Lozada led
yesterday's "Mass for Truth" at the Baclaran church to
commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the 1986 Edsa
"people power revolt" that ended the Marcos
dictatorship.
At the Edsa Shrine, Catholic bishops
and cause-oriented groups offered a thanksgiving Mass
while militant groups marched to the Don Chino Roces
(formerly Mendiola) bridge near Malacañang.
About 7,000 to 10,000 heard the Mass
at the Redemptorist Church in Baclaran. The police
figure was 4,000 to 6,000.
Bishops hold special meet
today,
a first since eve of Edsa 1
BY GERARD NAVAL
BISHOPS are gathering today for a
special consultative meeting called by the Catholic
Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
The meeting at the Pope Pius XII
Catholic Center in Manila was called by Jaro Archbishop
Angel Lagdameo, CBCP president, in a bid to harmonize the
stand of individual bishops regarding the worsening
political crisis, according to Caloocan Bishop Deogracias
Iñiguez.
A Church source said that the first
time such a special meeting took place was in the days
leading to the first "people power revolution" in 1986
that ended the Marcos regime.
FORMER President Fidel Ramos yesterday said
the country is not yet out of the woods because of "some
hard-hearted leaders."
He said no one should be allowed to put more
holes into the "already leaky ship" that is the Philippines.
"But all should pull an oar or plug a leak,
otherwise we will all sink together," he said, reading a
statement to the media after the Edsa 1 anniversary celebration
at the People Power Monument along Edsa.
