Philippine Asian News Today Vol 20 No 12 | Page 30

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By Jun Migallen
Nasakmit ni Houston Rockets
guard James Harden ang iyang unang
Most Valuable Player Award kagahapon
sa gabii atol sa NBA Awards show sa
Santa Monica, California.
Gilupig ni Harden ang four-time
MVP nga si LeBron James sa Cleveland
Cavaliers ug Anthony Davis sa New
Orleans sa maong pasidungog.
Niadtong 2015, si Harden maoy
nahimong runner up ni Stephen
Curry sa Golden State Warriors sa
nahisgutang award.
Sa kasaysayan, siya maoy
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY June 16 - 30, 2018
James Harden is NBA’s MVP
ikatulong nahimong MVP sa
Rockets sunod nila ni Moses
Malone kinsa kaduha makaangkon
niini (1979, 1982) ug Hakeem
Olajuwon (1994).
Gikuyogan si Harden sa
iyang inahan sa iyang pagdawat sa
award gikan ni NBA commissioner
Adam Silver.
“I’m not getting emotional,
I’m not doing all that, but she’s my
backbone,” padayag ni Harden.
“Good times, bad times. ... We
only get one life and I’m happy
she’s my mom. I wouldn’t have it
any other way, for real,” dugang sa
nga Sixth Man of the Year awardee
niadtong 2012 sa dihang sakop pa
siya sa Oklahoma City Thunder.
Si Benn Simmons sa Philadelphia
Sixers milupig ni Donovan Mitchell sa
Utah Jazz sa Rookie of the Year award
ug Jayson Tatum sa Boston.
Gilangkat usab ni Lou Williams
sa Los Angeles Clippers ang Sixth
Man of the Year honor samtang si
Rudy Gobert sa Utah Jazz ang napili
nga Defensive Player of the Year.●
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Villegas amid Duterte’s attacks: ‘Bawal ang duwag
pero huwag makipag-away’
President Rodrigo Duterte has
dropped a new series of tirades
against the Catholic Church, but
one of the most vocal bishops who
are critical of him gave a piece of
advice to the public. 
Instead of retaliating, Lingayen
Archbishop Socrates Villegas
advised his flock “not to bash
back”, especially on social media. 
“Harbor no grudge but
be critical and discerning. Be
respectful of your parents and
those in authority and choose good
manners all the time even if you hear
and see the opposite,” the prelate said
in a message on Monday addressed to
the youth of his archdiocese. 
Despite the “cursing, threats,
and shaming” made by the president,
Villegas urged the public to “love him nevertheless.”
“Take courage but be loving all
the time. Be firm in the faith. Bawal
ang duwag pero huwag makipag-
away.”
He also suggested that the
president might have been “a victim of his scarred past and his wounded
background.”
“He must have received so
much rejection and hurts in the
past that he blurts out so much
hatred and angst now. If he had
been loved much, he would be
giving so much of that love too,”
the archbishop added. 
The former president of
the influential Catholic Bishops’
Conference of the Philippines
(CBCP) said the Church is “in a
spiritual warfare against error and
sin.”
But this, the prelate said, is due
to the “shallow and incomplete” view
of the Church. 
Villegas admitted that the Church
throughout the course of its history
had made mistakes, even crimes. “A Church of sinners indeed,” But
according to the archbishop, this
should not be a signal to stop believing
in God. 
“This is what our present national
situation is showing us. When we
cast God aside and curse his name,
killing becomes easier. Stealing is
normalized, vulgarity becomes funny,
adultery is applauded. All because we
want God to disappear in our lives.
The message may lack the
usual fiery words, but the archbishop
still admonished the president and
said that “it is a terrible offense to
blaspheme God, to curse using God’