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Global girl groupKATSEYEand K-pop powerhouseaespasparked excitement online after sharing a photo together on Thursday, August 21.

“Nag-dive sya. Nag-dive sya!”

Pope Leo XIV has officially reached the 100-day mark of his pontificate. Elected as the 267th pope on May 8, the Holy Father has already participated in several historic moments — including speaking to over a million young people at the Jubilee of Youth — and has had beautiful encounters with the faithful from all over the world.

We wash our hands, sanitize shopping trolleys and wipe down cafe tables. But what about our phones? We touch these devicesdozens of times a day, and take them everywhere from the kitchen to the dining table, and even the bathroom.

VATICAN— Pope Leo XIV has decided that the Pontifical Committee for World Children’s Day should be incorporated within the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life, whose prefect is Cardinal Kevin Farrell.

“Born with voices that could drive back the darkness,” the character Celine, a former K-pop idol, narrates at the start of Netflix’s new release “KPop Demon Hunters.” “Our music ignites the soul and brings people together.”

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ROME— A top Vatican official, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Monday urged “online missionaries” to move beyond content creation and become true witnesses in the digital world.

FILE PHOTO: WORLD FISHERIES DAY, Nov. 21, 2017: A boat leads the Pamalakaya and Anakpawis fluvial parade from Navotas City to Manila Bay to protest reclamation. (Photo by Ruth Lumibao/Bulatlat)

Under the SPLIT project funded by the World Bank, no actual new land distribution takes place. Former Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano said that there are still more than 500,000 hectares of agricultural land undistributed.