Passenger volume during Holy Week at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) recorded double-digit growth this year, as operations across the airport’s terminals remained efficient with an on-time performance (OTP) of more than 80 percent. New NAIA Infra Corp. (NNIC), the private operator of...
photo: PPA Authorities recorded a significant increase in the number of passengers that travelled through seaports and the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)...
CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police Regional Office 4-A Director Police Brig. Gen. Paul Kenneth T. Lucas reported on Monday that the Holy Week or Semana Santa in the Calabarzon region was generally peaceful. Lucas said 5,980 police personnel and 749 force multipliers from the Armed Forces of the...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Except for a drowning incident in Hinatuan town, Surigao del Sur province, Holy Week in the Caraga region was generally peaceful and orderly, police said on Monday, April 21. Police Regional Office 13-Regional Public Information Office (PRO...
Philippine Coast Guard personnel rescue 506 passengers from MV Lite Ferry 5 after the ship ran aground off Jagna Port in Bohol on April 19, 2025. (Photo: PCG) A potential grim maritime accident was averted this Holy Week thanks to the quick response of Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) personnel who...
ILOILO CITY—The Holy Week was generally peaceful in Western Visayas region. Except for vehicular accidents, the Police Regional Office-6 did not record any major criminal incidents in Western Visayas. This was attributed to the deployment of police all over Aklan, Antique, Capiz, Guimaras, and...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – The Holy Week across Central Luzon was peaceful, Police Regional Office- 3 Director Police Brig. Gen. Jean S. Fajardo said. Fajardo attributed the success of the week-long religious activities to the coordinated efforts of the public, local government...
BUTUAN CITY – The Panaad 2025 or Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) on Good Friday, April 18, here was generally peaceful, police said. A POLICE outpost on the Panaad trail in Butuan City. Police said hundreds of Catholic devotees climbed the annual Panaad Via Crucis mountain trail in Barangay...
Tight security and public safety operations remain in place in Metro Manila and other parts of the country as millions of people, who went to the provinces for religious activity and vacation during the long Holy Week break, are expected to troop back starting on Sunday, April 20. The Philippine...
What was supposed to be a fun beach outing quickly turned into a nightmare after a jeepney carrying 25 passengers turned turtle in Bolinao, Pangasinan on Good Friday, April 18. Citing accounts from one of the passengers, a report from the Bolinao Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management...
KALAYAAN, Laguna (AP) — Dozens of penitents whip their backs to atone for their sins during Good Friday rites in the streets of the southern Philippine town of Kalayaan, as Christians across this largely Catholic country commemorate the passion and sufferings of Jesus. A PERFORMER reenacts the...
ZAMBOANGA CITY - More than 20,000 Catholic devotees attended the yearly pilgrimage to the Abong Abong Park in Pasonanca here for the Holy Week. The Mobile Command Center estimated the crowd on Maundy Thursday to have reached 20,592. People continue to troop to the area today, Good...
