SANTA FE, Nueva Vizcaya – A 1,000-pound (about 500 kilos) unexploded vintage bomb was found in an irrigation canal beside a rice field in Barangay Tactac here on Tuesday, June 24. Police Major Fernando Bag-ayan, town chief of police, said the bomb was discovered by a farmer who was fixing the...
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...
After the journey of Holy Week, Visita Iglesia takes on a deeper meaning. It becomes less about visiting many churches and more about remembering what stayed with you. Each church tells more than a story of faith. It speaks of the city's history, its changing face, and the ways belief has shaped...
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...
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...
ILOILO CITY — This Holy Week, the Catholice faithful are urged to include the jubilee churches in Iloilo and Guimaras as part of their traditional Visita Iglesia or visiting seven churches. Citing the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the Archdiocese of Jaro released the...
PUGO, La Union – A family of seven was selected as Baguio-Benguet Lucky Summer Visitor 2025 by the Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club Inc. this morning in Pugo, La Union. Dionisio Dennis of DZWT and president of BCBC said they started taking positions at around 7 a.m. to...
BAGUIO CITY – One-hundred nineteen drivers and conductors tested negative for illegal drugs in a surprise drug test conducted by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Cordillera in major public transportation hubs here on Wednesday to ensure the safety of travelers during Holy Week. THE...
