The author would like to give the readers a panorama of what is Central in Apalit and Central in Diliman:

Central in Apalit

This is the Convention Center of the Church of God International (CGI), popularly known as Ang Dating Daan. It is the place where they hold Thanksgiving to God, various activities and very important events in their congregation. The Presiding Minister of CGI is Brother Eliseo Soriano and Vice-Presiding Minister is Brother Daniel Razon. It is located in the heart of the Municipality of Apalit, Pampanga, where majority of the residents of this place are poor families.

Central in Diliman

This is the Central Office of the Church of Manalo, popularly known as Iglesia ni Kristo (INK). The owners of this Church are the Manalo Family, a corporation sole, now headed by Mr. Eranio Manalo. It is located in Diliman, along Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City, where majority of the residents of this place are rich, educated, famous politicians and businessmen as shown by the facts in the records of the Mayor’s Office of Quezon City, called as the wealthiest City in the Philippines for having the highest collection of taxes.

Definition of Terms

Apalit
A word idem sonans or same sounding with “Up-A-Lit”. “Up” means of a high level or heavenly as people points their fingers up, whenever they want to declare something higher/heavenly. “A-Lit” is “a light”, connotes brightness related to heaven or heavenly bodies like the sun, moon and the stars and the shining armor of God.

Diliman
This is taken from the root word “dilim”, a Tagalog or Pilipino term referring to darkness/night. Diliman means in English as darkness or dark place. Darkness is descriptive of a place where there is no light but total darkness. Read more

Note: Originally posted by rqcemanes in Relijournal.com

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