The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has called for donations for the victims of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkiye and the neighboring country, Syria. An injured child awaits treatment at the Bab al-Hawa hospital following an earthquake, in the rebel-held northern countryside of Syria's Idlib...
BERLIN, Germany - A Turkish woman was rescued Friday after spending more than 100 hours trapped in the rubble of her earthquake-hit home underneath her husband's dead body, a German non-profit organisation said. It took a team of rescue workers over 50 hours to painstakingly make their way through...
The government should go beyond the holding of nationwide earthquake drills as it prepares for the eventuality of a massive earthquake or the “Big One” that can hit the Philippines at any given time, Senator Maria Lourdes Nancy Binay said on Friday, February 10. Binay issued the reminder as she...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo has expressed his sincerest condolences to the families of the two Filipinos who were confirmed to have died due to the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria last Feb. 6. (Jarl Schmidt/ Unsplash) "I am deeply saddened by the loss of our fellow Filipinos in Turkey. I...
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) is studying the possibility of sending a second batch of emergency responders to earthquake-hit Turkiye that would replace the initial 82-man inter-agency response team tasked to assist in search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) operations. Assistant Secretary Bernardo...
LUCENA CITY, Quezon – The family of the 45-year-old overseas Filipino worker (OFW) from this city who died in the magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Türkiye this week asked the help on Friday, Feb. 10, of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. in repatriating her remains. WILMA Abulad Teczan (FB) William...
The inter-agency response team deployed by the Philippine government to Turkiye officially commenced Friday, Feb. 10, its search for survivors in the southern province of Adiyaman in the aftermath of the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that has since killed 21,000 individuals. The Philippine...
Pope Francis called for solidarity and unity amid the rising number of fatalities in Türkiye and Syria earthquakes. "Now is the time for compassion and for solidarity. Let us unite in our sorrow to help those who suffer in #Turkey and #Syria. May we build peace and fraternity in our world," said...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has conveyed his sympathy over the death of two Filipinos in the devastating earthquake in Turkey. Rescue workers look for survivors amid the rubble of a building in the rebel-held town of Jindayris on February 9, 2023, three days after a deadly earthquake...
Two Filipinos died in the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria on Feb. 6, the Philippine Embassy in Ankara disclosed. This handout photograph made available by the FDFA's Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) on February 9, 2023, shows members of the Swiss rescue team...
A statue of the Virgin Mary within the collapsed Annunciation Cathedral in Alexandretta, Türkiye was left undamaged amid the massive earthquake that hit the country and Syria on Monday, Feb. 7. In a report from the Catholic News Agency (CNA), Turkish Jesuit priest Father Antuan Ilgit shared...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged the Security Council to authorize the opening of new cross-border humanitarian aid points between Turkey and Syria to deliver UN aid to earthquake victims. Some 4 million people living in the...
