Tag: Philippines
De La Salle students call for mass promotion
Students of the Catholic De La Salle University system called for the mass promotion of students "as most compassionate course of action" for the...
BAN Toxics releases report on mercury trading in Mindanao
Environmental justice group BAN Toxics, in partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature – National Committee of the Netherlands (IUCN NL), published...
Philippines extends lockdown in Metro Manila, other high-risk areas
President Rodrigo Duterte has extended the "enhanced community quarantine" in the Philippine capital and in other high-risk areas to May 15.
The president also approved...
1.1K Filipinos with Covid-19 abroad; 319 recoveries
The number of overseas Filipinos diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has reached 1,185 as 63 new cases were recorded on Friday, the Department...
Bulacan parish serves meals to those in the line of duty
A Catholic parish and its volunteers in Bulacan province are doing their bit to help frontliners who are working tirelessly to contain the Covid-19...
Manila bishop calls for opening of churches despite lockdown
A Catholic prelate said the opening of churches and religious services should be considered by decision makers as among the essential services that can...
Taguig parish to stream doctrinal class
A parish in the Diocese of Pasig is offering free online Catholic doctrinal classes every Thursday starting April 23.
Fr. Mark Emman Sese, parish priest...
Radio Veritas Asia connects Chinese Catholics to Manila’s poor amid pandemic
A church-run radio network was able to link Catholics in China with urban poor communities in the Philippines despite the global health crisis brought...
Generals in Duterte’s Cabinet face hard lessons amid COVID-19 lockdown
While nobody questions the generals’ personal integrity, their policies display lack of consensus-building skills and a narrow preference for ‘order’ over empathy
Philippines’ COVID-19 mass testing highlights effects of slow govt action
Health officials have ordered a stop to
the testing of people for COVID-19 in a village in the central Philippines
after learning that at least 54...