Tag: Philippines
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...
Healthcare and social protection for all
There is hunger in the world not because we lack resources but because we lack generosity
Photo gallery: Manila’s urban poor endure lockdown
‘It is a time bomb waiting to explode,’ says community leader about the threat of COVID-19
When will the contagion end?
In the Philippines, as anywhere else, the COVID-19 pandemic goes beyond being just a health concern — it has economic, social and political repercussions
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