OnThisDay two years ago, former president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III died. Aquino would be remembered as the Philippine leader who brought China to court over the West Philippine Sea. FromOurArchives:
No matter how the Aquino family tried to keep the wake and burial simple and detached from politics, Noynoy Aquino is still the former president and lone son of democracy icons Ninoy and Cory.
Despite Aquino’s run-ins with the Catholic Church, mainly over his government’s push for a Reproductive Health Law, the homilies of Father Albert Alejo, SJ, and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas called the death as a sort of
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