Aside from cultural-religious reasons, the procedure is too costly. With a price tag of P1 million per transplant, we can operate on five to seven charity patients. So why use your scarce resources on a single operation?

The ratio used to be 60-40, with 60 percent representing private patients and 40 percent charity. But lately, with costing for charity going up and our subsidy stuck at P150 million, it became 80-20, with indigents representing the 20 percent.

Many have reacted so great in the shelter. I'm amazed at the resilience of these people. They're very religious people, sincerely so, and they have what it takes ... people are out there doing things and living.

She started intensely praying and Bible reading and religious music. She was commanded in an extraordinary and compelling way to cut off her own legs, arms and head and give them to God.

A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.

There is a basic terrorist germ in fundamentalism – a germ that is purely genocidal. This germ drives the psyche of mentally unstable individuals in the path of chaos, which actually is presented to them by the fundamentalists as the path of God.