This is about Lent, but not the Lent associated with penance, sacrifice and repentance for sins as symbolized by the biblical “sackcloth and ashes.” It is more about our extended family’s long history ...

The Pan-African Bar Association of South Africa (PABASA) issued a stern warning to the Legal Practice Council (LPC), cautioning the regulatory body to resist attempts to weaponise disciplinary ...

MANILA, Philippines — The tradition has lost nuch of its appeal: the pabasa, or reading aloud the epic narrative poem of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Among those who are ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Filipino Lenten tradition of pabasa or chanting the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ will be held at a shopping mall in Makati City. “Even here in Landmark ...

The Labour Practice Council (LPC) has defended its decision to charge advocate Dali Mpofu SC, asserting that its National Executive Committee (NEC) will not be used to settle political disputes ...

The “pabasa” (chanting of the Passion of Christ) was easily drowned on Holy Tuesday by noisy children running around, on one side, and a loudspeaker playing pop songs at a party in a nearby house, on ...

While popular tunes are proposed for Holy Week’s Pabasa, there is a need to check for anti-Semitic content, which can be found in the lines of the Pasyon that continue to blame the Jews for the death ...

A family in General Santos City has been holding a “Pabasa” (chanting of the Passion of Christ) every Holy Week for more than five decades. On Maundy Thursday, April 17, 2025, the voice of 73-year-old ...

During Holy Week, the elderly, young, poor and prisoners recite the Pabasa every morning, an old traditional chant composed in the seventeenth century by Spanish missionaries to teach the stories of ...

The tradition of pabasa, a Catholic devotion popular during Holy Week, remains alive in many parts of the country. In Mariz Umali’s report in “24 Oras” on Holy Monday, Catholics in Dagupan City, ...

Lent is one of the most memorable traditions of summer. And perhaps Holy Week is observed at the height of the season because the punishing heat tends to epitomize Jesus’ suffering, of which we must ...