SANTO TOMAS CITY, Batangas – A newborn baby girl was found outside an abandoned house in Barangay Santa Anastacia here on Monday afternoon, June 24. Resident Marilyn Martinez, 50, discovered the baby. She reported her find to the city police. The Women and Children’s desk led by Police...
(Unsplash) "Have we provided a safe haven for abandoned children?" Cavite 2nd district Rep. Lani Mercado-Revilla raised this question as she filed a resolution that sought an inquiry into the implementation of the safe havens provision in the Foundling Recognition and...
MULANAY, Quezon – Police are searching for a woman who abandoned a newborn baby boy at the Saint Peter the Apostle Parish Church in this town on Tuesday, February 20. THE Saint Peter the Apostle Parish Church in Mulanay, Quezon. (FB) In a progress report on Thursday, February 22, police...
MULANAY, Quezon – A abandoned newborn baby boy was found at the Saint Peter the Apostle Parish Church here on Tuesday night, February 20. A SOCIAL worker takes care of a baby found in a church in Mulanay, Quezon. (Mulanay PIO) A Catholic faithful, Adelina Gonzales, was praying inside the...
BACOLOD CITY – The body of a baby girl was found in Purok Bansa, Barangay Central Tabao, Valladolid, Negros Occidental on Thursday, December 14. Police Major Eric Doronila, Valladolid police chief, said her umbilical cord was still attached to her when she was discovered. However, they could not...
CEBU CITY – Authorities have asked the public to help find the person who abandoned a baby boy by the road in Lapu-Lapu City on Thursday night, November 30. A BABY boy is being attended to at the Lapu-Lapu City District Hospital after he was found abandoned by the road around midnight...
BACOLOD CITY – A newborn baby boy was found at the lobby of the San Sebastian Cathedral here on Sunday, July 30. Police Major Elmer Bonilla, head of Police Station 1, said that a woman, who visited the church, heard an infant cry and located the baby wrapped in a cloth. Bonilla said the woman...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – An elderly businessman found an abandoned newborn baby girl in a remote area in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay on Friday, March 10. Col. Eduard Mallo, Zamboanga Sibugay police director, said Norberto Benedicto, 80, found the infant in a banana plantation in Purok Paradise,...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz-Araneta In case you have not heard of Our Lady of the Abandoned (Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados), she is the patroness of Santa Ana, the 6th district of Manila. Santa Ana used to be called Sapa, the capital of the Namayan kingdom that included Quiapo, San Pedro Macati, San...
The Diocesan Shrine of the Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish located in Barangay Poblacion, Muntinlupa was given the special bond of spiritual affinity with the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The church announced on Tuesday, Aug. 23, that it “received the Decrees from the Papal...
Roman Catholics observe Thursday, May 12, the feast day of the miraculous Our Lady of the Abandoned (Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados) and that of another well-loved saint, Saint Pancratius. Our Lady of the Abandoned (Facebook) Commemorative masses will be celebrated at the Diocesan Shrine and...
THROUGH UNTRUE Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa, O.P. Today's gospel reading narrates the story of a father whose two sons abandon him (Luke 15:1-3, 11-32). The younger son goes to his father and says: “I'm going away, so give me my rightful inheritance today.” In his haste, he does not realize the...
