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BY   ELENA MASILUNGAN POSTED ON 02/25/2014 3:05 PM  | UPDATED 02/26/2014 10:25 AM 8 Comments 78 0 LinkedIn 0 Pinterest 112 Share In this day of rising teenage pregnancies, HIV infections, and risky sexual behaviors among young people, it makes sense for schools to conduct classes on comprehensive sexuality education. Not so for over a thousand Catholic schools nationwide. As far as the Catholic Church’s hierarchy is concerned, sexuality education has no place in Catholic schools even as their students are confronted with the same challenges as the rest of the country’s youth. This view, however, is not shared by Catholic teachers and educators. They are instrumental in developing a teaching material on sexuality education that can be integrated in elementary, high school, and college curriculums. Called the Population and Development Education Teachi...

BY   RAPPLER.COM POSTED ON 02/22/2014 11:10 PM  | UPDATED 02/22/2014 11:55 PM 13 Comments 2K 0 LinkedIn 1 Pinterest 2K Share MANILA, Philippines – A group of North and South Korean families  held a final farewell  Saturday, February 22, after being briefly reunited for the first time since the 1950-53 Korean War. Knowing they will almost certainly never be together again, the families were allowed to meet one last time for an hour before parting ways on the third and last day of their emotionally-charged reunions. Many of the participants broke down and sobbed as they clung to each other. (READ :  South Koreans head for bittersweet family reunion in North ) Here are some photos from the joyful reunions tempered by the pain of the inevitable – and this time permanent – separation at the end. Kim Se-Rin is reflected in a mirror as h...