April 29th 2013
Young students have shown growing interest in environmental issues, spurred on by their own concern over the increasingly unusual weather patterns and worsening typhoon flooding that the country has seen in recent years. This interest was very much in evidence among the students who attended CFA’s Kalma-Klima Forum in November last year and also among [...]
April 26th 2013
Songs taken from the CFA-produced music CD, Awit ng Mga Bagong Bida, are currently airing over DZUP (1602 DZUP – AM) every Wednesday on its radio program “Talatugtugan” from 11AM – 12NN. DZUP is the community radio of UP Diliman which goes on air daily from 10AM – 8PM. Listeners can also tune in to [...]
April 25th 2013
What do K to 12 and Technical Writing have in common? The two topics just happened to be the choice subjects of the Educational Research and Development Assistance (ERDA) for the one-day seminar offered by CFA. Around 50 educators and staff of ERDA Foundation attended the seminar, which was held at the ERDA headquarters in [...]
April 18th 2013
Calling all wannabe videomakers! Using your tablet, smartphone, digicam or videocam, create a short video related to the Gospels featured in our CFA magazines. What kind of video? Your call! It could be just you, expressing your comments about the Gospel—how you interpret it, how you can apply it in everyday life, what you can’t [...]
April 15th 2013
The workshop/seminar on Komiks Appreciation/Creation, which had been scheduled to be held on 25-26 April 2013, has been indefinitely postponed. Teachers, catechists and communicators interested in participating in this two-day workshop on the use of comics for Gospel-sharing may contact the Training Department (E-mail: training@cfamedia.org, tel: 713-2972) for possible rescheduling. CFA is a pioneer in [...]
April 12th 2013
CFA’s Catechetical Congress in mid-April will see the launch of the book “Social Media and the New Evangelization” authored by Fr. Stephen Cuyos, MSC. After many years of conducting workshops on social media all over the country and even in some Asian countries, Fr. Stephen has amassed a great deal of experience and know-how on [...]
April 10th 2013
“Mother Teresa of Calcutta,” a comics adaptation of an Italian-made movie, begins a discussion of the Gospel for the last Sunday of June. The Gospel is lifted from Luke 9:51-62, where Jesus describes the cost of discipleship. The story is featured in the June-July issue of CFA’s Gospel K Magazine. A study and discussion guide [...]
April 10th 2013
A CFA team, headed by Publications head Jericho Natividad and Sales head Sean Siy, conducted a one-day course on “Gospel Storytelling” on April 9 at the request of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tabuk (Kalinga). Discussed during the course were Bible History, Basics of Bible Interpretation, and Using Comics for Gospel-Sharing. Among those in the photo [...]
March 22nd 2013
Recognizing the growing popularity of Smartphones and tablets (especially among the young), the Publications Department of the Communications Foundation for Asia has started using QR codes in its magazines. QR (short for Quick Response) codes are matrix barcodes that may be read by an imaging device, such as a Smartphone or tablet with a camera [...]
March 15th 2013
What are the chances of an ordinary teenager to represent the Asia-Pacific region in an international event like the World Winter Games? One in a million? What are the chances of a youngster with Down Syndrome to accomplish that feat? Make that one-in-a-million multiplied many times over. And yet, 16-year-old Brina Maxino, a senior high-schooler [...]
March 15th 2013
The Communication Foundation for Asia joined a 2,000-strong army of young election workers in “Kilos Kabataan,” held March 8 in Pasig Catholic College. Mostly high school students from the National Capital Region, the students gained an introduction on how to help safeguard the coming mid-term poll. Also known as CHAMP 2013, Kilos Kabataan was conducted [...]
March 5th 2013
Designed for comics writers, illustrators and Christian Living teachers who use comics in their classrooms, a workshop/seminar titled “The Gospel According to Komiks” is to be conducted by CFA on 25-26 April 2013. The topics to be covered in the course are the following: – Theory of comics and sequential art – Effective storytelling – [...]
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