ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with US counterpart Joe Biden at the White House on May 9, a Turkish official told AFP on Friday. It would be the first White House meeting between the two leaders. The Biden administration in January approved $23 billion in F-16...
Six faith healers were crucified on Good Friday at a century-old chapel in the farming village of Kapitangan, Paombong, Bulacan before a multitude of devotees and foreign tourists. Faith healers from Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental were crucified at a man-made Golgotha in the farming village of...
After a break of several years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Quiapo Church officials said that over 760,000 devotees again joined the traditional Holy Week procession of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila on Good Friday, March 29. Over 760,000 devotees joined the Black Nazarene's procession...
The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) announced the arrest of the No. 8 Most Wanted Person of the Police Regional Office (PRO 8) on Thursday, March 28 in Porac Pampanga. (Quezon City Police District PIO) Authorities identified the accused as Anfred Naval, 33, a resident of Biliran, Leyte....
CAVITE – Authorities collared two high-value individuals (HVIs) and confiscated P149,600 worth of suspected shabu in a sting operation in Silang on Maundy Thursday, March 28. Confiscated pieces of evidence from a buy-bust operation in Silang on Maundy Thursday (Photo from Cavite...
A member of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) was hurt while responding to a fire that gutted a commercial building in Paco, Manila on Good Friday, March 29. Fire hits commercial building in Paco, Manila on Good friday, March 29. (Photo courtesy of Manila Soler Masangkay Binondo Fire &...
New York, United States - Prestigious Harvard University said Wednesday it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries. A copy of the 19th-century book "Des Destinées de l'Ame" -- or Destinies of the Soul, a meditation on life...
Athens, Greece - Greece's conservative government survived a censure motion in parliament on Thursday that was lodged over claims it had tried to manipulate an investigation into the deadly train collision that rocked the country last year. The no-confidence motion was defeated,...
Vatican City, Holy See - Pope Francis, who often pleads for compassion to prisoners, washed the feet of 12 incarcerated women in Rome on Thursday in a rite marking Holy Thursday before Easter. The Argentinian Jesuit visited the Rebibbia women's prison in the northeastern outskirts of...
Madrid, Spain - Four people died after falling into the sea in northern Spain as strong winds and seven-meter-high waves hit ahead of Storm Nelson, emergency services said Thursday. "Two people died after falling into the sea at Muros del Nalon and Cudillero," the emergency services...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in Moscow on March 21, 2024. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / POOL / AFP) Moscow, Russia - Russia on Thursday accused Armenia of trying to rupture increasingly strained ties between the two ex-Soviet...
Photo from Las Piñas City Tourism and Cultural Office The Las Piñas City Tourism and Cultural Office (LPCTO) listed 13 churches that can be visited by the faithful this Holy Week. LPCTO Chief Paul Ahljay San Miguel said these churches are the Saint Joseph Parish Church located along...
