The Philippines last week became the lone country in the world to mandate the use of face shields, supposedly to help temper the dreaded surge in COVID-19 cases after the Christmas and New Year holidays, when friends and families typically gather to celebrate the season. The wearing of “full coverage” face shields together with face masks used to be required only when going into enclosed spaces such as malls or using public transportation. But on Dec.
The Christmas story or the account of Jesus’ birth in the Bible is fraught with difficulties, challenges, and danger not so unlike what many people experience now. It is marked by tragedy and death because of the order of Herod, the King of Judea at that time, that male babies two years old and below, the baby Jesus he hoped to be among them, born in the vicinity of Bethlehem (Mathew 2:16-18), be killed. That bloody massacre is marked in the Christian liturgical calendar as Holy Innocents’ Day. With that, the heartrending words of the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: “A voice
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