Tag: Philippines
‘COVID-19 pushed 148 million Asians into poverty,’ says Oxfam
The region’s billionaires, however, grew their wealth by US$1.46 trillion, leading to a staggering rise in inequality
The ICC’s record of failure
Who in the Philippines in their right mind is going to help bring the president to the ICC and enforce an international arrest warrant?
Philippines celebrates its most famous child
The Child Jesus is no doubt the most famous child in the Philippines with his image prominently displayed in all possible places
2.2 million workers affected by super typhoon ‘Odette,’ says ILO
Although the typhoon hit parts of 10 regions in the country, the impact on employment varied, said the report
Homage to the acacia trees
Most of the trees are as old as the campus itself and it offer much-needed shade and bring in a relieving breeze even in the scorching heat
Catholic bishop appeals to Filipinos not to hoard on medicines, to...
“It is greed to hoard on medicine,” said Bishop Oscar Jaime Florencio, head of the Ministry on Health of the bishops’ conference
Manila archbishop calls for human dignity amid crisis during Black Nazarene...
The Manila archbishop also assured the millions of devotees that Jesus knows what they are going through, especially during this pandemic
The Black Nazarene and the Filipinos’ quest for resurrection
The Black Nazarene devotion is perhaps one of the Philippines' most predominantly working-class Catholic devotions
Philippine literary giant F. Sionil Jose dies
In a 2019 interview with CNN Philippines, Jose said he wanted his epitaph to read: "He wrote stories and believed in them”
What is the ‘Black Nazarene’?
“Our culture is a culture of touch and, significantly, in a way we want to touch heaven”
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