The Philippine National Police (PNP) has released a list of areas where they have set up quarantine control points. This is after Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal were placed under bubble general community quarantine (GCQ) due to the increasing number of COVID 19 cases. According to PNP spokesperson B/Gen. Ildibrandi Usana has two…
Samantha Bernardo, the Philippines’ representative in the ongoing Miss Grand International pageant, was a stunner as she took the stage on Saturday during the swimsuit competition. Miss Grand International Philippines 2020 Samantha Bernardo Miss Grand International Philippines 2020 Samantha Bernardo Miss Grand International Philippines 2020 Samantha Bernardo Miss Grand International Philippines 2020 Samantha Bernardo Miss…
US President Joe Biden is said to have reached his target of 100 million people to be vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine within his 100 days in office. During his visit to the Center for Disease and Control, they reported that more than 100 million people have been vaccinated in just 60 days of his…
Russian President Vladimir Putin, angrily responded when US President Joe Biden called him a “Killer”. Putin even challenged Biden to have an open conversation online. The US President said the statement further worsened the relationship between the two countries. Putin was reacting to Biden’s statement in an interview that the Russian President would pay for…
The leader of the League of Provinces of the Philippines (LPP) lamented the move by the Department of Health (DoH) to recall the vaccines previously sent to the provinces, for local frontliners. According to LPP president and Marinduque Governor Presbitero Velasco Jr., very few have reached them, as well as in other areas, so if…
MANILA-The Department of Health (DOH) has clarified that the Philippines will continue to roll out COVID-19 vaccines. “Its very clear from the report that there’s no reason to suspend our vaccination program. The vaccine is not what caused our healthcare worker death, ”said Dr. Beverly Ho, Director IV of the DOH-Health Promotion Bureau. “DOH and…
Tanzanian President John Magufuli died of coronavirus disease at the age of 61. According to Tanzania Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, their president died of heart complications at the Dar es Salaam hospital. Magufuli has not been seen in public for more than two weeks and news has spread from the opposition that he has…
The total number of COVID-19 vaccine injections in the Philippines rose to 215,997. According to data released by the Department of Health and National Task Force Against COVID-19, it is also 38% of half of the more than 1.1-million doses that have arrived in the country so far. There are already 929 vaccination sites conducting…
Church Historians’ Association of the Philippines Statement on NHCP Board Resolution No. 2, s. 2020 26 February 2021 Through the Episcopal Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church (ECCHC), the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) asked the Church Historians’ Association of the Philippines (CHAP) to look into the issue of the first…
VATICAN— Here is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines on March 14, 2021: “God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son” (Jn 3:16). This is the heart of the Gospel; this is the…