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INC reinforces relief and medical mission in Tacloban with housing and livelihood aid for Yolanda survivors

TACLOBAN City — The Iglesia Ni Cristo unveiled on Friday, March 14, a “model community” for the benefit of its brethren who were affected by super-typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) more than four months ago, in fulfillment of its promise to help survivors of the strongest typhoon on record to ever hit the country. INC Executive Minister Eduardo V. Manalo led the groundbreaking ceremonies of the INC’s resettlement housing and eco-farming community in Sitio New […]

India scours jungle islands for lost Malaysian jetliner

(Reuters) – Indian aircraft on Friday combed Andaman and Nicobar, made up of more than 500 mostly uninhabited islands, for signs of a missing Malaysia Airlines (MASM.KL) jetliner that evidence suggests was last headed towards the heavily forested archipelago. Popular with tourists and anthropologists alike, the islands form India’s most isolated state. They are best known for dense rainforests, coral reefs and hunter-gatherer tribes who have long resisted contact with outsiders. The search for lost […]

Lost airliner was diverted deliberately: Malaysian PM

(Reuters) – A missing Malaysian airliner was likely to have been deliberately steered to a course that could have taken it anywhere from central Asia to the southern Indian Ocean, Malaysia’s prime minister said on Saturday. Minutes after Malaysian leader Najib Razak outlined investigators’ latest findings about flight MH370, police began searching the house of the aircraft’s 53-year-old captain for any evidence that he could have been involved in foul play. The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER vanished […]

Fact sheet: INC resettlement and eco-farming site

FACT SHEET:   NEW ERA RESETTLEMENT AND ECO-FARMING SITE Sitio New Era, Barangay Langit, Alangalang, Leyte  Total land area:  3,000 hectares (owned by the Iglesia Ni Cristo) Area to be initially developed for housing, eco-farming and garments factory:  768 hectares  (to be expanded in the future) Type of housing:  quadruplex studio type Area of one quadruplex:  140 square meters Four units/quadruplex Lot Area per unit:  35 square meters Floor area per unit: 22 square meters […]

Scientist wants to clone Italy’s rarest bear

With only 40 Marsican brown bears left in Italy, the species is on the brink of extinction. One scientist has a controversial plan to prevent its extinction – to clone it. And, he doesn’t want to stop there. In the beech forests of central Italy’s Abruzzo National Park, roughly 40 native Marsican brown bears are struggling against the threat of extinction. Since the 1980s, half of the Marsican brown bear population here has been lost […]